What we cultivate is what we’ll give to those around us.
(Picture by Lisa R.)

Today I threw out my wallet. It had a hole in the change portion, which would leave a trail of coins behind me everywhere I went (riveting story, huh?). This trail would be useful only if I were say Hansel or Gretel (barring that no one stole the coins). I swear I have a point. The change compartment had been broken for a while, but I loved the wallet (it was ORANGE…favorite color) and just couldn’t seem to part with it. I estimate that over the past few months I must have lost at least twenty dollars in the form of dimes, nickles, and quarters. Today I needed a coin and opened the change portion only to find it empty. That was the last straw the wallet had to go! As I began to empty out the contents of my beloved orange wallet preparing it for burial. I had an epiphany. I HOLD on to broken things. I don’t try to fix or replace, nope…I hold on. This is not only true of my wallet, it’s true in certain areas of my life. God has given me tools necessary to heal and fix what’s broken, but instead of using the tools I more often find myself holding on to the brokenness instead. As I held the wallet in my hand, it felt as if God was saying, don’t let this be the only broken thing you let go of. I don’t think we realize how much we as humans do that, hold on to broken things: Hurt, anger, fear, sadness. I threw my old broken wallet away, and now I have a new one. One that holds my change and instead of losing my coins they will be able to grow and multiple (uhmm, if I don’t spend them that is 😉 ). The same is true in life, when we let go of the broken, the “whole” that is left will grow and multiply.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1).

So what’s my plan of attack? To let go and let God heal the broken.