On Brokenness

The concrete contractor was taking a look at her broken up and cracked driveway. She was lamenting the broken state of affairs. The contractor shared this bit of (perhaps obvious) wisdom. “As broken as it is, it still makes a great driveway.”

That sentence could be said about so many things in our lives. As broken as life is, as broken as we are by sin, as broken as the world is, what remains is still something great. We’re blessed by God to live a wonderful life in a wonderful world. We are blessed by God to be partners in God’s work in the broken places. We are blessed with forgiveness so that this life, the only life we have, can be abundant (great!).

So, fill in your own blank: “As broken as it is, it is still a great life, world, job, family, church, school, club, neighborhood --- the list could go on.”

Not that we don’t need to keep on mending the brokenness, certainly that is part of God’s work through our hands. But, at the same time, we need not lose sight of the fact that even in imperfection, what we have is pretty “great” too.