Beauty for ashes in my Aloe Vera that I saved from the fire

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Isaiah 61:3 says:  I will appoint unto them, that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness. 

For many years, I have always made it a habit to try and consider in my decisions, the "unintended consequences" that can sometime come from even the best choices.  

This is a video of my taking some of the plants and cutting them into smaller pieces to try and multiply the plants from 2 to 12 plants.

I shared some months back about giving my co-workers instructions to clear out a fence row on both sides of a rock wall.   And they did exactly what I asked the to do.  However, a few days later I took a walk down the rock wall, and discovered, to my sorrow, a large pile of mature aloe vera plants that they had either cut up into pieces, or pull up from the ground and attempted to burn.  My heart sank.  I certainly wasn't mad at the guys.  They did just what I asked.  But I should have walked the line first to see that these plants needed to be preserved.

Fortunately, the fire did not consume them.  So I got Moise to help me and we loaded up the pieces that still had roots and took them to a shady spot and planted them back in good soil and for months I watered them every afternoon generously.

I'm happy to say that we saved almost all of them.  And now, rather than a couple of big plants I have a lot of small plants, that will grow into big plants.   My goal in a couple of years is to harvest the pure aloe oil from them and sell in Merida for skin care.  The gel is very valuable to sell.  And also for myself for burns and bites.   

I have received here "beauty from ashes".  And by the way, after these plants grow some more, I will split them into 4 each and have 4 times as many.  I'll continue that until I have 100+ plants.



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