Good News! God uses broken people

Truth is always true,

regardless of how old it is.

This showed up today in my memories on FB from six years ago:

"God uses broken people-

they are all He has."

Dick Alexander had preached in chapel that morning.

Those words were part of his message.

It was just five months out from Bill's death.

I was definitely freshly, rawly, completely broken.

I was thankful then for the hope they offered.

I am even more thankful now,

partly because I have learned to embrace,

to see and to appreciate the depth and beauty in life

that can only come from being broken.

I no longer feel the ever constant need to hide or deny my frailty,

my weaknesses,

my fears.

I know,

without a doubt,

that I,

in and with all of my imperfections

brokenness

failures

am loved completely, lavishly, wholly

by a perfect and Holy Father

who, through His Son, mends me,

makes me whole

and all of the cracks I have simply allow His light to shine more places.