I didn’t know Molly well, except that she was one of Michaela’s dearest friends and that she looked like an angel when she came to Michaela and Keiyon’s wedding on 12/29/2021. But when offered the chance to pray yesterday, I immediately signed up. Here is the passage I prayed over you, her family and friends, over our country, over our world. I know that Molly was an “oak of righteousness” and her life displayed God’s splendor to everyone who came in contact with her. I believe that God will continue to use her legacy to replace what looks to us like ashes with “a crown of beauty.” Isaiah 61:1-3 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
