Now, this is the funny part. The comment was bogus, it was a spam trying to get me to click on a link for Ugg boots. I find it so interesting that this particular cake is the one that got the spam comment out of all the other possible cakes out there. Last night I read a fellow blogger friends recent blog in which she recieved a package in the mail of pottery that a friend had made for her. When she opened it she found that all but 2 of the pieces of pottery had been broken in its journey to her house. You can find that blog here . I completely related to the broken pottery in her pictures. This is the comment that I left for her late last night before I headed off to bed:
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I am so sad for you at the broken pottery, but Oh how I feel like that pottery, broken, and splintered. What God crafted in beauty and splendor has been cracked into peices deep and who can put the pieces back together where the cracks won't show? and who can find the little splinters and glue them back into place? And who can see the beauty through the broken-ness and is any part of me left whole? Do I even have two pieces left un damaged? Who can dig in deep to still find them whole?
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That is how I went to bed last night. Broken, splintered, wondering who could make me whole again. Then to wake to find this image of stained glass. Something that I had crafted long ago with my own hands. The Cross, the dove, the beauty made out of broken-ness. It could be coincidence, but I don't think so. I think this was God's way of showing me that broken-ness can be turned beautiful. Because of the Cross, the Holy Spirit is within me, represented by the Dove. All my shattered bits and pieces can be assembled into something beautiful and whole again. The cracks just add to the beauty. The sun will shine again.God is crafting my broken-ness into something beautiful, even if all I can see at the moment is the shards and splinters, there is something better that is coming.
He is once again reminding me that "Jesus makes beautiful things of my life". I may just have to break out in song. =)
mmm...so beautiful! here's one of my favourite quotes that is along the same lines:
ReplyDeleteWhen sufering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, God stoops to pick up the pieces. But He doesn't put them back together as a restoration project patterned after our former selves. Instead, he sifts through the rubble and selects some of the shards as raw material for another project-a mosiac that tells the story of redemption." Ken Gires
i'm continuing to pray for you. *hugs*
That is a beautiful quote and I may have to find a way to incorporate that into something for my wall, so I can see it and be reminded of it daily. Thank you for sharing it with me.
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