Echoes of Redemption

I thought this was a great set of photos from The Big Picture blog on the one year anniversary of Hurricane Ike, which caused more than $29 billion in damage. When you click on a photo of the devastation from a year ago, the picture fades to a shot of what that same location looks like today.

As I clicked on these photos and saw the way in which things in Galveston have been made new, I found myself being stirred by these little foretastes of the coming redemption that Christ will bring to the whole cosmos upon His glorious return (you'll have to click through to the Big Picture site to see the pictures fade):