Broken
"If it ain't broke, it ain't ours!" One of my husband's frequent quips, he has quite the repertoire. He is famous for his quips and quotes. Mostly, they are funny. This particular one, sometimes. Unfortunately not often. I hear it as we are staring at perhaps, a hole shaped oddly like a baseball, dented into the siding. Perhaps, when we hear the ping of a BB gun, followed by the shattering of glass. Or maybe when we enter a grandson's bedroom and switch on the light, and remain in the darkness. Oddly again, another bedroom light/fan no longer produces light and one fan blade slightly off kilter. Holes in the couch, looking oddly like a small slit from a pocket knife. No back. No batteries in any remote. No problem. A futon bed used as a couch but bent in two. Like in half...extruded.
You get the picture. Broken. So much of the stuff of life, our house. Yes, our boys, grandsons, been with us since they were babies, can be a bit destructive. they break stuff. Sometimes it seems overwhelming. And costly.
Thankfully, we have the Perfect example of how to love and forgive. Ignore sometimes, (mostly because we are not in our thirty's anymore.) See, they are broken. From birth they were rejected, and suffered much in the womb, and in the earliest days of their lives. So we love them because Jesus loves us, and His love empowers us. Even tho it seems we continue to find ways to break His heart.
These boys are not easy. To raise. To teach. To love. Yes I will admit it they can be hard to love. Yet still they are loved. Because Jesus loved me first. He came to this earth to save us from our brokenness as we often break the stuff of His world. So, If we ain't broke, we ain't His." But we are broken and we are His. And He loves us still.
5 comments:
Sounds like our house with 3 boys! They sure can be destructive! Thank you for your gentle reminder of sharing the grace that was shown to us.
I am visiting from FMF- "we love them because Jesus loves us, and His love empowers us"- I love this! And I can identify with you, on the loving broken boys... it's definitely hard. Thank you for sharing.
From this you just can't escape,
the truest sentence ever spoken:
"If you can fix it with duct tape,
then it isn't really broken."
It's the best thing ever made
(some's waterproof, to fix your sink!)
and it comes now in many shades;
the one that I like best is pink.
And so it goes, we keep things going
even though they may be flawed,
and there's comfort in the knowing
that it is the same with God,
who'll fix the stuff within ourselves
with holy duct tape from His shelves.
I love holy duct tape from heaven. another thing we have to hide around here. As always I love your words. We live on a farm. Its duct tape and baler twine. What a comparison. God, Holy duct tape. Be well my friend.
@RockenRobinsWhiteHouseLetters Boys need so much love. The broken even more. God bless
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