Hello: this is Jules' blog: 'Diamonds in the Rough'

Garth Hewitt's song, 'We saw Beauty in the Ashes' has got to be one of my top favourites  - a beautiful expression of how some of the best, most beautiful riches (kingdom people)  are found on what some might term 'life's scrap heap.' All I  know is that Jesus would have felt very at home there. And, 'learning from the poor,' - for me, never a truer word.

 

We saw beauty in the ashes

We saw treasure in the dust

We saw joy come out of mourning

We saw diamonds in the rough

And though the image may look broken

We saw Jesus shining through

And on each forgotten feature

He was writing ‘I love you’

Come and stand with the broken

Come and learn from the poor

Take the side of those forgotten

Let the image be restored

As the poverty of riches

Leaves us stranded on the shore

Where the rising tide of selfishness

Will leave us thirsty evermore

Our image of those in poverty

Must be broken once for all

To see the beauty in their lives

To hear the good news from the poor

Come and walk the road with Jesus

On the side of the oppressed

Come and stand inside the kingdom

Where the story is redressed

And though our image looks so broken

Jesus still says, ’Follow Me’

And give yourselves for others

And live in simplicity

Garth Hewitt: Word Music