aftermath

barren, burned, devastated, decimated, deconstructed, amputated, scarred

left for dead in a pile of ashes. . . .

new life - born out of the wasteland. . .

not destroyed. . .but different. . .better somehow 

aftermath 

"aftermath"

"see, I am doing a new thing!  now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." - - Isaiah 43:19 

"intersected"