The Broken Puzzle of Our Lives Made Whole
“I thought my heart would mend, and babe you know I’ve tried but the pieces of the puzzle doesn’t match the one inside.” Kate Wolf, Picture Puzzle
Folksinger Kate Wolf wrote in her song, "Picture Puzzle" about the times when the pieces of our relationships don’t match up to what you had pictured them to become. This can also apply to our lives when the expectations of our lives don’t come to fruition or something unexpected happens to change our picture perfect lives. It’s when our lives get broken into pieces we never intended and as hard as we try to put them all together it just doesn’t match the expectations we had inside.
Brokenness, is what Lent is all about when we remember how Christ was broken for us. We celebrate this in the broken bread of Communion. It is the reminder of how the brokenness of the Cross brings resurrection but also redemption – the piecing together of all the fragmented pieces of our lives making them not only fit but work into a much greater picture.
Easter celebrates the broken Christ becoming whole with new life-his promise to us of salvation-of saving all the broken pieces of our lives and bringing them together to bring wholeness.
Realizing and claiming this each time you take Communion can truly become a “moment of grace.”
Folksinger Kate Wolf wrote in her song, "Picture Puzzle" about the times when the pieces of our relationships don’t match up to what you had pictured them to become. This can also apply to our lives when the expectations of our lives don’t come to fruition or something unexpected happens to change our picture perfect lives. It’s when our lives get broken into pieces we never intended and as hard as we try to put them all together it just doesn’t match the expectations we had inside.
Brokenness, is what Lent is all about when we remember how Christ was broken for us. We celebrate this in the broken bread of Communion. It is the reminder of how the brokenness of the Cross brings resurrection but also redemption – the piecing together of all the fragmented pieces of our lives making them not only fit but work into a much greater picture.
Easter celebrates the broken Christ becoming whole with new life-his promise to us of salvation-of saving all the broken pieces of our lives and bringing them together to bring wholeness.
Realizing and claiming this each time you take Communion can truly become a “moment of grace.”
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