Stripped Bare

(I wrote this late last night as I was thinking of some stuff that life has recently brought my way. Hope it speaks to someone)

Broken Pieces

So much has happened since my last post – I feel several posts coming – including the death of my youngest brother, as well as some other personal stuff.  I have written many blog posts in my head – haha! – some of which may make it here. Tonight on my drive home some words came into my head so I thought I’d share them with you.  Not sure if I should call it a poem, but it’s some sort of literary thing 🙂

“I need something from you”. The words came unexpectedly.  I shuffled around in attempt to find something worthy of one such as him. “What are you doing?” God asked. “Look in the mirror. That is what I want”. “Are you sure?” I was hesitant, thinking surely he meant I needed to make some changes so that I could be just right. “Yes. I am sure”, the words came back to me, firm, yet gentle. Embarrassed, I cobbled together the broken pieces of me and handed them over tentatively, wondering what on earth could be made of such a mismatch of life’s experiences. God smiled a “Thank you” as if my  gift were a precious metal. And now, I wait, not quite patiently, but in hopeful anticipation of what God will make of my broken pieces.

The interesting thing in all of this, is, sometime after I wrote this in my head, a song my Matthew West entitled ‘Broken pieces’, came over on the radio station I was listening to …. Listen to it here ….