I often wonder how I can feel able to take on the world at one moment and feel like a heap of broken earthen-ware the next.  I can walk into a room of the who’s who in the business world and commandeer the floor, but two hours later sit alone in my office and not be able to pick up the phone to return a call.

My only conclusion … I am broken.  In my humanness and in my selfishness I do not always function at my optimum.  That is not to say that I am not effective or efficient, I can be obsessively so, or that I am not “put together”, people are often mislead because I appear to be extremely self-sufficient.

But it does mean that I desperately need to retreat, be introspective and acknowledge my brokenness.  I need to be honest with myself, acknowledge my weaknesses and recognize that I do not have it all together and I most definitely do not have all the answers.  It is only by doing so that I can give all my pieces to God knowing that He is the ultimate Craftsman.

In a way that only he can, God takes my broken pieces and molds them into something beautiful and useful.  And in His hands I can be anything.  I can be the friend who brings encouragement or the mother who says the right words when her daughter needs them most.  I can be the acquaintance who shelters a family from harm or the stranger whose willingness to be vulnerable in a blog changes someone’s life.  In His hands I can even be the hero a desperate student so eagerly awaits.  And yes, I can be the businesswoman who impacts a community.

So, it is sitting in my brokenness that I am most thankful.  For it is only then that I realize apart from God I can do nothing, but in him I can do all things.

We are all broken.  But, it isn’t until we acknowledge our brokenness that we can allow the One who created the universe – the farthest star my eye can see as well as the puppy that sits at my feet – to use us in ways far greater than all we ask or imagine.

Embrace your brokenness and Choose a Better Life.