I feel like people are little glass jars.  The glass jar basically holds us together.

The last few days I’ve been feeling kind of crummy – more today than other days.  I guess I feel kind of sad.  A lot of my friends are going through hard times right now.  I was making a prayer list last night and realized that we’re all so broken.

Some people’s glass jars have been shattered and are in so many pieces they don’t know how to put them together nor do they think they can even put it together.  Some people are broken but in fewer pieces.  Others have pieces missing but most of it is still there.  Others have large cracks in them, ready to break at any time.  Others have chips in them.  Some people have lost their pieces.  Others are trying hard to hold them together.

Me?  I feel like I have a lot of chips and if I get anymore, well, it might not hold together so well.

People are so broken right now that it breaks my heart.  When I think about all the different things people are going through, it just makes me sad.  And we as friends all try to be strong for each other.  I think it is so important that we do.

And as I think some more about glass – a broken glass can’t really get put back together.  What happens when a glass is broken?  You throw it away.  I think about how we’re all really just trying to hold ourselves together, to be strong and not let things affect us, or how we go about picking up the broken pieces wondering how we can put it all back together.  And I don’t think we can.

But I do think that God can.  God can heal the broken.  He can make things new.  People fail each other all the time.  Other things we rely on, things that consume our lives, they all fail.  But God never fails.  He is the rock, the stronghold, the light that keeps on shining when everything is dark.  We need to remember that.

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