We’re privileged to see glimpses of God’s future restoration in the resilience of the natural world around us now. The American Dust Bowl in the 1930s and 1940s saw the devastation of big pieces of land due to shortsighted farming techniques and drought. Once the farming ceased and native grasses were replanted, much of the land healed. “In the heart of the old Dust Bowl now are three national grasslands run by the Forest Service. The land is green in the spring and burns in the summer, as it did in the past, and antelope come through and graze, wandering, among replanted buffalo grass and the old footings of farmsteads long abandoned” (Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time [New York: Mariner Books, 2006], 309). There are many such stories from around the world of rebirth after fire, floods, and storms.
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