Day 14 - A Day of Rest

As you my reader are reading this I don't know if it is Sunday where you are.  It is afternoon here, a day of rest, but it seems I am always busy.  Today I needed to get things done before the work week, as I am sure it happens in your life too.  This Sunday is a relatively calm and uneventful day.

I know that this journey of "broken" will have many uneventful days and for that I am learning to rest.  Even though I know the Lord is always at work in my life it helps to know that there are days when calm happens and we can all catch our breath.

In honor of resting I thought I'd share another "broken" life with you and summarize today's message from church.  It is about a Bible character, Rahab.  For those Bible scholars in the audience you are shaking your head, yep, there is a huge broken life.  For those that are not familiar with her, she was a harlot.  She was the lowest of the low and broken fit her well.  But she played a significant part in the overtaking of Jericho.  For her service and faith she is spared death.  God does a real work in her life.  She even goes on to be in the lineage of Jesus.  Wow!  I will never do the sermon justice but pretty incredible stuff.

Lord, Thank you for the way You are always looking to redeem our lives.  You are constantly guarding us and will see that every enemy we face is ultimately defeated.  Even through our struggles, disappointments, addictions and temptations you are prepared to show us the victory.

So in collecting pieces of stone from my mountain journey I realize that they represent pieces of me.  A little broken here and a little broken there.  I know that like in Jerusalem You will use them all to rebuild my life.  I know because I was fearfully and wonderfully made.  What happened to cause fissures, cracks and breaks were not meant to destroy the parts of me You knit by Your hands.  So as I gather my pocket full of rocks.  I submit them to You as the unique parts of my personality that were battered, beaten, shaken, rejected, criticized.  I'm excited to know what the new me is capable of being and doing.  I am prostrate before you, fully committed to the rebuilding process as a obedient act of my will.

In loving devotion, through the good and the bad, the happy and the sad, for better or even when it feels like worse.  I pledge to You, my Lord, my life.