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Day 14 Beauty from Brokenness

God uses brokenness to make us whole. In this fall season, when the treetops transform into a golden canopy, everything is temporarily preparing for death.  The season will merge with the frost and the life in the ground will stand still until spring.

In this "brokenness," this season of transition and transformation, there is beauty.  In our lives, there are moments when we have nothing together and our minds are scattered and thrown to the wind.  But in those times, there is hope because God takes those pieces that fall to the floor, he takes our weaknesses, our fatigue, our worry, our frustration (whatever we hand over to him) and he creates something beautiful.

There's this old parable about a cracked pot. To paraphrase, this pot can't hold water like the pot on the other side of the yoke, and it's disappointed and self-conscious about itself since it comes back from the well only half full.  Little does the pot know, the gardener knew the pot was cracked, and one day he tells it to look to the side of the path on the way back to the master's house.  The pot half-heartedly looks, and when they arrive home, the gardener asks what it saw.  Too caught up in its flaw, the pot says that it's no good and should be thrown away.  But the gardener, with grace in his voice, replies that the path was surrounded by beautiful flowers on that side because he had planted seeds, knowing that this pot would water them.  And now, the master's house was full of beautiful bouquets.

A simple story, but it brings tears to my eyes whenever I read it because I too am so caught up in what I can't do and who I am not.  But Christ sees who I am and who I'm becoming.  He uses the worst parts of me for his glory because he transforms them into something breathtakingly beautiful. So remind yourself today, that it does not matter what brokenness is in your life or has been in your life.  You are a new creation, and Jesus does not make ugly things.  He will take you in his arms and use you and even me for his Kingdom and his glory. 

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