Just Because You’ve Been Damaged by Tragedy Doesn’t Mean You Have Nothing Left to Offer the World

Here's where we got married, Glade Park, Colorado.

A sweet story, told to me yesterday about the little log cabin chapel where my husband and I got married:

“When we were building the chapel,” Alice, who owns it, told me, “we were getting wood from an area of Glade Park that had been ravaged by fire. The supporting pillars for the structure that you see in the front, we decided not to strip them of evidence of the burn. We did that to remind us--I could picture those poor trees saying ‘I’m so damaged by the fire, I’m burned and disfigured, I’m no good for anything anymore.’

"And look where they ended up--the most important part of a chapel that’s meant so much to so many, many people.”