Thank you, Elizabeth, for taking us to this special, holy place. Brother Joseph Zoettl's work speaks so beautifully to my heart that NO ONE is beyond God's redemption. Brother Joseph spent his life creating beauty from the ash heaps of what man had used or broken and thrown away. What a fitting picture of salvation!
And from these gardens I also saw with new eyes the fact that no THING is beyond His redemption, as well. So many moments of my own life, that I would now so readily discard, have been saved and USED by my loving God for His higher plan. I see more every day that salvation is not merely about going to heaven some day but about the redeeming of TIME -- the moments and hours and days of a broken life--even time so regretfully squandered or spoiled or thrown away. God will, I am totally convinced, use ALL of my own spoiled lifetime....some how, some way....for His glory. My responsibility today is to place all of the broken pieces and moments into His hands and His care.
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