Hello,
Thanks for allowing a late night version this week! I just
arrived home with my family from a 1 week vacation. It was great to be away and
to focus on family. One of the days we were going to a couple beaches and
someone suggested a particular spot for looking for sea shells. When we arrived
there it was like nothing I had ever seen. Giant rows of shells that had washed
in with the tides and been left behind. Inches deep, and what looked to be
miles long. My wife put the following on facebook after that day, and gave me
permission to use it here:
“Sea shells...piles of sea shells - tossed around by the ocean
and landing with many others. Some broken and tattered and others whole and
unscathed from the outside. Each one rummaged through by hands looking for the
perfect one to keep.
Same with life...some are visibly broken, cracked and scared;
while others are not but hold their scars deep inside where they are less
visible. But God, takes all of those broken and tattered pieces and turns them
into something more then we could imagine even when others and ourselves see
broken, tattered, messed up, not worth it- God sees His children as worth it.”
When I read this it made me think of two things: 1) God
created each individual and 2) no matter what we go through, we are loved
deeply by the One who gave His only Son for us.
Psalm 139:14 “I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it
very well.” (NASB)
Romans 5:7-8 “For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though
perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His
own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
(NASB)
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