Comments on Napier Baptist: Broken

Lord, how easy it can be, stuffed with milk and ho...

2008-08-19T14:23:00.000+12:00

Lord, how easy it can be, stuffed with milk and honey to remember how far you have brought us.

Through the seas, the wilderness, the searing dusty places where our stomachs growled a common language of want.

You fed, clothed, watered and loved us, created in your image, yet we remained determined to allow only a spark of your glory to shine through.

How you have nurtured us, and moulded us - God-created mosaics of our experience and your grace.

Today, despondent, forgetful of our journey together I sat, head in hands.
Woeful, mindless in a garden you had me tend, waiting on a pillar of smoke to make me feel remembered.

Where are you?

A weeping maple drank my tears. Not salty desert tears, but too much milk-and- honey tears, forgetful self-centred tears.

Then three weightless fantails, all heartbeat and feathers, designed for your joy alone, alighted on the maple. They chittered their heaven sent message of praise, and when my heart lifted, they alighted back to you. my misery was annulled by remembrance of your goodness.

Forgive my forgetfulness.

We have journeyed together over seas and through endless wilderness to the this land of more than enough.

Thankyou,

And again, thankyou.

I will remember.

God's light shines in the darkness and the darknes...

2008-08-19T10:37:00.000+12:00

God's light shines in the darkness and the darkness will NEVER overcome it...

Thankyou Bec,That is a viewpoint I never considere...

2008-08-18T16:53:00.000+12:00

Thankyou Bec,
That is a viewpoint I never considered.
:-)

Lauren

Beautiful Lauren:Shards, splinters, broken pieces....

2008-08-18T14:32:00.000+12:00

Beautiful Lauren:

Shards, splinters, broken pieces.
Fragmented, smashed, shattered.
Dangerous.

Ruach, breath of life,
Transforming love.

Re-formed.
Re-shapen.
Carefully placed.

Beauty. meaning, design.
Mosaic.

A vase may appear broken,but the pieces if cleanly...

2008-08-17T18:15:00.001+12:00

A vase may appear broken,but the pieces if cleanly broken, can be put together. They may show a few cracks and a chip here and there, but in essence, that vase is still complete and even more beautiful than before. Shards, however, should remain away as they are sharp and can penetrate and will not help that vase retain its beauty. Don't try and make the vase perfect again, let those cracks show. It may take a while for that vase to feel strong again, but, like a jigsaw puzzle, and many hands helping complete the picture, the masterpiece will stand tall again.

A vase may appear broken,but the pieces if cleanly...

2008-08-17T18:15:00.000+12:00