Broken (Five Minute Friday)
Unscripted. Unedited. Real. Writing for 5 minutes prompted my a single word from Lisa-Jo.
Go:
This week has been Spring Break. This month we have been watching the Bible every Sunday night. The kids have been reenacting all of these wonderful stories of faith . . . I’ve had a red bathtub, fights over who is sacrificed, who gets to be the donkey, . . . I kept a back seat to all of this just watching, listening.
How blessed I am. I have the snapshot of that moment in my mind–I have a mental file of all the awesome moments because when things get yucky–I pull a blessed joyful memory back up.
He took the break, blessed it and broke it. God does that with us too.
We have ALL been blessed by God.
Then we are sent out to live our lives with our challenges and our brokeness.
Each of our blessings are just for us, as well as our broken moments.
[tweetherder]I no longer fear the broken moments because I know each one of them has been blessed by God first.[/tweetherder]
Stop:
How does the song go? In the middle of my little mess, I forget how big I’m blessed… Thanks for the reminder!
Linda,
That sounds like a great song–I’ll have to google it.
Be Blessed.
I loved that last line… “I no longer fear the broken moments because I know each one of them has been blessed by God first.” Such a beautiful reminder!!
Kristen,
I’ve just “really” started believing in that “blessed and broken” idea. I wish I would have paid more attention earlier in life :-)
Be Blessed.
Beautiful for this Good Friday, there are many blessings in brokenness.
Kathleen,
The kids have had a awesome Holy Week together–that is a blessing AND nothing in the house has been broken despite so many long hours cooped up. Blessed and Broken take on different meanings at the different stages of my life.
Be Blessed.
mmmm …. spring break lessons that will not soon be forgotten!
God breaks us for his benefit as well as ours, to humble us and to give glory to Him.
Shelley–so true–I didn’t think about it being for God’s benefit as well. I need to think about that!
Be Blessed.
“I no longer fear the broken moments because I know each one of them has been blessed by God first.” This is a truth that I have slowly begun to learn. Thank you for the reminder.
Amy–I’m a slow learner too! I need to make it my mantra!
Be Blessed.
Now that sums it up — blessed and broken. Oh how beautiful when they reside side-by-side.
Each moment is has both–in order to choose gratitude and see our blessings we must look away from those things in our life that are broken. Not ignore them, but rather acknowledge them and decide how we will deal with them. Of course I’m still working through some of my own issues . . . I’ll never get “it” totally right but at least I have a tool for the experience.
Be Blessed.
Howdy, Renee! Oh, the power of a memory! Thanks for letting me picture Spring Break in the Baude abode. Red bathtub, “No, I want to be the donkey!” . . . I love it and can so relate. Great strategy to cope with what’s broken–warm up lost hope with the blanket of a blessed memory. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.