SHARDS

Have you ever wondered when your heart is crushed in a jillion pieces, how it can shatter even more?  I find myself wondering often at times, just how many more ways can a heart shatter.   Yet.  A careless word, a wrong thought,  a meaningless action, pound and shred what is already broken.  A phone call, demands on you that you don’t have it in you to fulfill, circumstances,…a loss, rejection,  another blow to an already shattered heart smash, smash, smash, the pounding continues….

Shard: a fragment.  Sliver: a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off

Tiny slivers, that when you try to pull them back together cut and hurt.  Tiny slivers that when you speak around them, the air causes them to fly through the air and stick in someone else and hurt them or perhaps they try to walk through the pile to help you and get cut in the process. Tiny slivers that splinter and wound. Tiny slivers that are impossible to sweep back together.  Tiny slivers that will wound those trying to help you. Tiny slivers. Tiny slivers that you grab a hold of tightly and pull them to you rather than risk opening your hand and trusting. 

I find that one of the HARDEST things to do when sitting among the shards and slivers, trying to put the pieces back together,  is to just sit still and trust God. To trust that God is not going to crush you but that HE  is fixing what is broken.  I find that opening my hand and exposing the pieces takes more courage than I often have within myself.  Trust oh so difficult.  BUT if I wait, and let God be God and trust the master craftsman, He will gather the pieces, will fire the oven and will create a far more beautiful work than I could ever accomplish just by gluing the broken pieces together.  There is GREAT HOPE in brokenness if you think about it for it allows you to be open to God's workmanship.  How amazing when God sweeps in and does what only He can do....for  "I" am no longer in the way......

JESUS said: Luk 4:18-19  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,  (19)  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Psa 34:17-19  The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.  (18)  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.  (19)  Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Psa 51:16-17  For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.  (17)  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.