Broken Things

This morning I got up at 6am. Went to the beach, ready to look for some awesome seashells!
The sunrose, it was beautiful. I could do this everyday.

But as i was looking at all the seashells washed up on shore, and there were LOTS! I started picking some up. So many of them, are broken, or chipped. And it got me thinking, the broken ones, we tend to throw back...because we don't want them, because they don't look as nice as the full ones. My favorite shells, are the ones that kinda wrap around each other that your supposed to hear the ocean in...only there arent big enough ones i can find.....for free..lol (im prayin bout this one!) but i love those ones. but they are fragile i think, that the only ones you see, are the small ones and they are all broken....
so we throw them back. because who wants a broken sea shell?! (unless its so unique and one of a kind that u cant throw it back!)

and i was thinking. we do the same w people. broken ppl...we tend to push aside. ignore. walk away from. because we don't want something thats broken. we don't want to fix it, or don't know how to fix it, (or them).
but God LOVES broken people. broken things. Because He is the ultimate fixer! Healer.
So why do we throw back the broken ones?! Why don't we embrace the broken things(ones) like God does?! We have to be willing to get dirty, sandy, for the beauty of the brokenness.
Because let's face it, all we have to do, is look deeper into something broken, and i can promise you, that you will see something beautiful.

There is beauty, found in the broken. In the chipped. In the cracked.