There's only one small problem with it: the sign on it that tells all within reading distance, Broken and Unplugged. Do Not Use!
| Cookworks Silver Touch Microwave... found at yahoo ImagesThis is not the broken microwave! |
The microwave looks whole. It seems to have no real flaws, and yet... Broken and Unplugged! What a bummer!
How much of our lives do we walk around with areas of our hearts carrying signs that tell people, Broken and Unplugged. Do Not Use!
How often do people really listen to those signs? Some abuse them in order to use them more, knowing they have some need of repair, while others steer clear but admire the silver. And unlike the microwave, our hearts CAN be repaired, for while they may be broken, the Master Potter of our lives, the Creator Who made us, can use silver cast in the fire to put our hearts back together again.
Hearts that have been hurt; hearts that feel broken... they may sometimes feel like they need repair work. And therapies can be helpful with this, given the right connection and commitment between ourselves and someone we feel we can trust to have on our side. And a PRAYING therapist is all the better!
God is the Great Physician, though, and even with therapy as a resource, the true healing comes from Him.
Somewhere along the line, if we are in the right place at the right time, we will learn the truth about ourselves, though! And this is a truth that only the Holy Spirit can move from our heads to our hearts: the truth that sets us free is that we are NOT BROKEN even if we have unplugged from the world. We have been hurt; we have been heartbroken; we have been through sorrows and shed tears, but if we are still here, we have NOT been broken. God has a purpose for us, evidenced by the fact that we are STILL here, and we still feel things with depth of emotion, even when we ignore those feelings. Even when they frighten us...
And once we learn the truth: we are WHOLE, we are truly WHOLE and unbroken... perhaps there are cracks that God has kept together with the liquid silver of lessons learned, but we are indeed whole, in body, soul, mind, heart... we are whole, even if we have unplugged ourselves from the great wall of life. God can still use us, and sometimes that means interacting with other people...
To plug back in means that we are risking something. It takes courage, but we can do it.
To plug back in not only takes courage, it gives us a connection once more to the great Power Source, the Holy Spirit! The Dunamis of God... the wind, the breath of God Himself, Who moves in mysterious ways and speaks to our hearts in whispers; Who comforts us and who guides us from one step to another in life.
God uses a lot of different tools and means to help us get plugged back in. For some, it is the shifting of a single paradigm from thinking we are BROKEN to understanding that we are really WHOLE. For others, it is the relationship we have with a therapist, and for others still, with a life coach.
As a coach, I have been blessed with all three of these at different points of my life.
Some people think, if that person is a life coach, they must have it all together!
Let me let you in on a little secret: no single person on the planet ever has everything all together. All of us have had struggles, and all of us had times of weakness, but we have the ability to overcome, allowing God to use what has been seen of as weak in the eyes of the world to create areas of strength... people of strength. In this way, God uses the things that seem foolish and weak to the world to help build the reality of the Kingdom of God in the earth, one step at a time.
We can be pretty, like that silver microwave, and yet be unplugged from the world and God and even our own intuition. We can be blind to the signs that point to our WHOLENESS and our God-created world and personhood... but if we plug in, unlike that broken microwave, we can realize there is NOTHING WRONG with us. God made each of us the way we are for a reason!
Admittedly, the places where we have been broken in heart or spirit have been painful to go through... and usually this is a result of actions we or others have taken in this imperfect life. Every action has some consequence... good, bad, or a mixture of the two... and there is no escaping that...
But the Good News is that we have a Creator Who restores all things to new!!! Unlike that microwave, we will not be replaced with a newer, unbroken" model. We just need to plug into the SOURCE!
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