Broken to Beautiful

All week I have been thinking of Mosaic art, I can't get away from it so I thought I would share it with you to get it off my mind ;)

For those of you who don't know what Mosaic Art is, it is where an artist will take broken pieces of "things" and make them into a beautiful piece of art.  You can make Table tops, Vases, Wall Decoration or any type of Home decor out of them, Floor tiles....the possibilities are endless and the results beautiful!

Mosaic Stairs...so LOVE!

Beautiful Mosaic Bottle

 I researched how some people will go to Goodwills, Garage sales, and all type of junk store to purchase the pieces for their mosaic projects. They will buy the unwanted, the ugly, the chipped, the jagged, the broken, the cheap, the used, the discarded items nobody else can see value or use in. They PURCHASE them, then take them home and break them into even smaller pieces, so that they look like worthless, shattered things that you want to clean up the mess they made and throw away. Sometime friends will give them their unwanted or broken used items that are of no value to them anymore.

I can't help but to cry when I look at all these beautiful Mosaic pieces. In a spiritual sense it reminds me, God is the artist, I am the unwanted, worthless materials, and Satan or sometimes just Life itself is the one who has left me discarded and in the trash.

 

Here is the webster's dictionary description of Broken.

Broken: violently separated into parts : shattered damaged or altered by breaking, violated by transgression, made weak or infirm, subdued completely :crushed, sorrowful, not complete or full.

 No matter how we got there, most of us have been broken at some time in our lives. If you haven't been you will be. Sometimes we have no one to blame but ourselves, we make wrong choices that lead to hurt, and shame, there are some sins you just feel you can't break away from, some actions that become addictions. Then we are innocently hurt by others, spoken to in a harsh critical and hurtful manner,  lied on, cheated on, talked about, fallen in love with the wrong person, or maybe Life has just been hard as it can be and has "Violently separated" parts of us that were precious and priceless and irreplaceable. 

Or it may be that we have been the one who cause hurt to others and because of Pride or self righteousness we haven't made it right, we haven't repented or we have done so without really meaning it. A person can say I'm sorry,  and then a person can with a humble, contrite & broken spirit truly say , I am sorry for the hurt I caused, please forgive me. There is a huge difference. See, the self righteous will say I'm sorry simply so they can ease their guilt and try to tell themselves it is not their responsibility anymore. But if you are a blood bought child of God, He isn't going to let that be good enough. And yet, don't we still ignore and try to justify ourselves by finding fault in the ones we wronged? May God have Mercy, when he stops dealing with us to make our wrongs right.


And yet, here is what scripture says, "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds" 

He takes every broken piece of us, every worthless part, and he loves us. It's not that he loves what we have become, or that He loves us because He loves our sin, but He loves us because He sees Value in us, HE PURCHASED us with His very Life.
He turns what this world sees as trash, the drunken, the prostitute, the murder, the liar, the child molester, the cheating spouse, the drug addict, the poor, the sick, the needy, the dirty, the stinky, the fat, the ugly, the rapist, the abusing.......pretty much He takes what is left of us after Sin has destroyed us, or after Life has been unkind to us and like an Artist, He puts us back together, not just with duct tape and Elmer's Glue, but He makes us vessels of honor, beauty and value "HE BINDETH UP THEIR WOUNDS"

There are events or actions in Life that can never be given back, a lost childhood, a loved one taken long before we were ready to let go, just somethings that are broken are irreplaceable, but we need to remember,
when we get to Heaven, this Life will be as if a dream.
"For now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face, now I know in part but then shall I know, even as also I am known."