{"id":17488,"date":"2026-03-10T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/mysterious-ways-rising-from-the-ashes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:03:47","slug":"mysterious-ways-rising-from-the-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/mysterious-ways-rising-from-the-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Ways: Rising from the Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband, Russ, and I drove through our neighborhood, the place we\u2019d called home for 28 years. The Sierra Nevada foothills, once thick with towering pines, were unrecognizable. The ground was covered with a heavy layer of ash. The trees that remained were charred stumps.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks earlier, we\u2019d gotten an early-morning call telling us to evacuate immediately. The <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/4-uplifting-stories-of-people-and-animals-coming-together-during-the-wildfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire<\/a> tearing through Northern California had spread and was headed our way.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d jumped in the car with our cats and a few belongings. For days, we\u2019d bounced from hotel to hotel, desperate for news. What finally came wasn\u2019t good. Our house had been right in the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/an-angel-in-the-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire\u2019s path<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019d been given permission to return. Russ and I brought shovels, work boots, N95 masks and gloves. We\u2019d salvage anything we could.<\/p>\n<p>We drove slowly through the apocalyptic desolation, where chimneys marked where homes once stood. I wasn\u2019t prepared for what awaited us. Our house was nothing but rubble. Mementos, photos, heirlooms, my precious collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/inspirational-books-every-christian-should-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inspirational books<\/a>\u2014all gone.<\/p>\n<p>I wiped away tears as we dug through the ash and debris. We uncovered a cast-iron coat tree that used to stand in our foyer. A decorative dish our son had given me, blackened but whole. Bits and pieces of our life.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lord, how will we survive this? <\/em>I wondered. <em>How will we go on? <\/em>It felt as if our lives had been wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>We called it quits in late afternoon. Russ loaded what we\u2019d found in the car. The breeze picked up, swirling ash in the air. \u201cLet\u2019s go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to get in the car. That\u2019s when I noticed something stuck to my boot. <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/a-bible-page-gives-hope-to-the-victims-of-tennessee-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A scrap of paper<\/a>, smudged with soot. I picked it up. Its edges were singed, yet the words were surprisingly legible: \u201cIf life seems difficult, I pause and reflect on the blessing sometimes hidden within every circumstance. With renewed faith and courage, I begin again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Words that must have come from one of my books, a passage I couldn\u2019t recall but now said everything I needed to hear. Words that rose from the ashes. I framed that scrap of paper. I kept it on the nightstand in every hotel and motel we stayed in over the coming months. 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