Broken

Have You Ever Been Shattered As Glass?

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Have you ever shattered glass? How a beautiful china that looked picture perfect just moments ago suddenly breaks into a million tiny pieces and becomes lost forever?

Oh, the pain of cleaning it up! You’d wish you never had any glass in your life.

Now contrast that broken glass into a mosaic or collage that has been brilliantly constructed with similar pieces of broken glass. How do they look? Which one would you prefer buying at a store? The chinaware or the exquisitely crafted glass artwork? What do you think?

I’d prefer the exquisitely crafted art work any day. Because it is rare, it cannot be easily replicated. And it makes its mark anywhere. It will always be noticed. Without fail. Always!

When life happens, sometimes we also get shattered like that piece of broken china. It can be very hard to pick up the pieces once you’re broken but out of it can emerge a uniquely exquisitely crafted beautiful rare piece of art work. Can we make such a beautiful rare piece of artwork with unbroken glass. Nada!

It has to get broken in order to create an exquisite piece of artwork. There is no other way than making it like that. Talk about when life throws you lemons.

We keep coming back to the same topic over and over again. Yes, it takes time and a lot of attention and creativity to make such an exquisite piece of decoration but it’s worth its weight in gold.

In my life also, I have been broken multiple times. When I look back at those moments that shattered my life, it broke me to a million pieces. Every time I thought—I can never reel from this latest episode. I couldn’t keep myself together many a time.

The last time was the worst time in my life. I cried for so many days together. If you had collected my tears in a bottle it would have filled it up. I tried to get the people who were responsible for it to understand me. No luck. That made it even worse.

But I was in a supportive Bible study group. They prayed for me ardently. They counseled me wisely. But even more than that, God was with me. He came through to me like nobody else could. The verses I was lead to study in those few weeks were tailor made for me.

As I read them during the prayer time, I teared up so much because they kept saying to me over and over again—I’m still here, I see you, I know what you are going through. Trust me, I am going to take you places you have never dreamt of.

And believe me when I say this, God has already taken me places I never dreamed of going. Places I never knew existed within the realms of my own mind. Otherwise how do I get prompts such as this one today and I start writing and the words just flow?

I was feeling miserable today after I accidentally deleted something precious and as I was thinking about it while driving my daughter back home, the truck that was going before me had the words—Try Jesus. And I came home with exactly what I was going to write about today.

I didn’t think about what I should be writing. No it rarely happens that way. I just encounter situations that teach or preach to me someway and I carry them forward and share them with y’all. The word just popped up out of nowhere—Broken.

I am also a broken shattered piece of glass. Weathering many storms in life. But for every storm that came my way, after the initial setback, the initial shattering, I was able to pick up the pieces and craft myself into a brilliant piece of artwork. What I became afterwards was somebody I never imagined I could be.

It’s like I was suddenly given the strength of a bison and that could have never happened to me if I hadn’t been shattered. I’m sure you have had similar experiences too.

And if you have not, don’t be alarmed when you encounter your very first shattering. It will almost definitely come at some point in your life. You can be sure of that. It won’t be pretty. No shattering is pretty. It’s always ugly.

But what can emerge out of it is precious, invaluable, rare, brilliant and unique. It can make you destined for greatness.

Don’t be afraid of the breaking. Don’t be afraid to pick up the pieces after the breaking. Even if your fingers bleed as a result of it, the stain that they make on the broken glass will be worth every effort in putting them together to make your most unique piece of art.

So the next time you are broken, remember my words. It’s going to take you places you have never imagined. Breaking will shatter you to pieces. But the person that emerges out of that will be precious! So, remember that!

If you have a story about how your breaking made you who you are today, please share them in the comments. It encourages all of us who read them.

For those who take the time to contribute to the comment sections, thanks for sharing your time and your invaluable thoughts with us.

For all others, thanks for reading! Hope this brings you awareness or relief. That’s the intention of writing this piece. Now enjoy this broken glass mosaic!

Cheers!

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