It means, taking something that is hurtful or painful and troublesome and making something beautiful, happy and pleasant out of it. Hope that helps!!!!!
Crystal Lewis sings Beauty for Ashes.
Beauty for Ashes - 2009 is rated/received certificates of: USA:PG-13
Life in the Word - 1997 Beauty for Ashes was released on: USA: 24 May 2009
Life in the Word - 1997 From Ashes to Beauty was released on: USA: 27 September 2013
Beauty for Ashes - 2009 was released on: USA: 7 August 2009 (Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival)
Beauty for ashes is talking about what God does for us. Ashes in the bible times was something that the people would use to symbolize mourning and sadness. God is saying that he wants to take this a way and give us something beautiful , something joyful.
Callum Henderson has written: 'Asian Dawn' 'Beauty from Ashes'
Ashes are imposed on Ash Wednesday only and have nothing at all to do with anointing.
Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes., Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
The cast of Beauty for Ashes - 2009 includes: Tanika Brown McKelvy as Albertine Nedra McClyde as Syeeda Douglas Morocco Omari as Creed Kamau Stokes as Young Creed Kaya Stokes as Young Syeeda Douglas
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. [Isaiah 61:3 KJV]
It is an Aboriginal word meaning "the place of ashes."