It doesn't mean there are no broken pieces;
won’t
guarantee that you’ll be put together
like you
were, or like you dreamed,
or like
somebody else told you that you should be.
It’s not
a pristine book with gilded pages
un-smudged
as the day it rolled off the press.
It’s not
a policy that guarantees protection from harm,
or even
reimbursement for the inevitability of death.
It has
been fully lived, including the good, bad, and ugly;
dead
ends, re-routings, pain, suffering, and grief.
Cracks
abound, with no attempt to disguise them;
savored,
instead, in humility and gratitude
because
they have created you,
both in
the breaking and in the re-forming.
To
jettison or judge is to discard essential parts
of who
you are, to plea-bargain for a knock-off.
The world
needs all of you, past and present,
in order
to move toward the abundant life
that
Grace is preparing for our future.
© 2014
Todd Jenkins
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