A little girl, named Sara was walking along the beach for the first time.  As she walked along, she started picking up seashells.  Her mother pointed out one shell and the little girl said, “No I don’t want that one it is broken.” Her mom said, “Sometimes broken things can be beautiful.” The little girl picked it up and kept walking. When they got home the mom placed that seashell on a shelf.  It had pretty, purple spirals around the cone shape, even though it had a piece broken off it.

Many years later, Sara looked at the shell and it reminded her of that vacation. She smiled remembering what her mother had said to her. “Sometimes broken things can be beautiful.” Her mind wandered to how life had left her broken at times.  She suffered from depression and felt broken until God set her free. Smiling she understood what her mother was talking about, Jesus makes beautiful things out of broken things.

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People’s lives are often like this shell.  We have broken places, but we can still be beautiful. We can still be useful, even if we are not perfect or fully together. God does not call the perfect.  He calls those he has had to work on and recreate. Then he takes that brokenness and uses it to reach those that are broken and lost.

We have to be vulnerable and show our scars sometimes. Many people are dealing with terrible things. They are needing to see that God has delivered us from the things that broke us.  It will give them hope that they can be delivered too.

We were broken, but now are whole and complete in Jesus. I once was lost, but now am found. 

Psalm 147:3 3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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