There were dominos scattered on the table and three kids
quietly putting together their own creations. While her brother built a tower,
a dug out, and a hollow pit, she patiently worked on a sun surrounded by a
heart. He would build one thing, take it
down and begin another while she carefully pieced her one design into
place. She called me in to see her
masterpiece and proudly showed it off.
In the brief moment she walked away from the table, the littlest brother
moved a piece. She squealed and insisted
he not touch it, which every sibling knows what happened next…
“He broke my heart! He broke my
heart! I worked so hard to get it just
right and he broke it!”
There will be times when you carefully work toward building
what you vision in your heart, yet somehow time has a way of shifting and
settling into something far different. For
those times I pray that you allow God to birth in you desires that match His
eternal purpose, desires that stand the test of time and influence His Kingdom
that cannot be shaken.
“Delight yourself in
the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4
There will be a day when a boy will catch glimpse of your
heart and because we’re all human, you will both fall short and leave the other
disappointed. Wait for the one who cares
enough to stay, who allows God to use him in loving you and who is committed to
fixing the broken places that you will each have. In this, know that no boy can break you of
who God designed you to be. Place your
heart in the care of your First Love and allow Him to be the guide in all your
thoughts and actions.
“I delight greatly in
the LORD: my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a
robe of righteousness… as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.” Isaiah 61:10
Of all things, may you be brave enough to allow your heart
to be broken with the things that break the heart of God. Remain humble, teachable and useable by the
One who has a plan and purpose for you in an eternity that begins here on
earth. May you always know to the core
of your being that you need not work to earn the love of God. No amount of good works can earn His love or
His blessings, these are not something to be earned, but instead they have been
freely given to the heart that cries out to Him. Jesus provided a way so that we could go to
Him in the broken, messed up, condition that we are in and because of His grace, we don’t need to work hard to get it right on our
own.
“…godliness has value
for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”
1 Timothy 4:8
“In love he
predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance
with his pleasure and will- to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has
freely given us in the One he loves.”
Ephesians 1:5-6
We sat back down at the table and together we rebuilt the
broken pieces. And my heart filled with thanks for a Father who comes close to us in our brokenness and helps us piece our dreams, our desires, our very selves back together again. I praise Him for being One who loves this pretty girl far more than I can and the One I trust to be faithful in restoring her heart one day when she cries out those words to Him.
This pretty girl who now grinned ear to ear as she excitedly told me it was just right: a heart with the sun in the center.
This pretty girl who now grinned ear to ear as she excitedly told me it was just right: a heart with the sun in the center.
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