All The Broken Pieces

In my last post I promised to write about my next trip to Melbourne. However I felt the words for another blog stir in my heart and it is about the things we have broken our hearts over. The things we can't fix. The choices we have made, the decisions we could not stop another person from making without poaching on their own free will. The things that hurt us deeply and the broken pieces of that experience and disappointment of hope gone feel like broken glass in our hands. What can we create with these broken pieces? Fragments of cherished memories, scattered dreams and hopes? Well, my loves. With all the broken pieces you can create a new masterpiece for your life. It will not look the same as what you envisioned but I promise that what you will create with those broken pieces that have brought you both joy and pain something beyond what you ever dreamed. God knew we would need an example of broken things becoming beautiful and whole again and that is why he created the idea of mosaic. Mosaic are tiles that can be a myriad of bold and earthly colours and it is like a giant jigsaw, with lots of itty bitty pieces that you have no idea what to do with until you start and the masterpiece begins to form and you put it together in a way that is a work of art, just like the ancient people of Mesopotamia who introduced the concept of mosaic in the third millenium. For all we know, the person who invented mosaic was somebody who felt like their world was breaking apart and in a fit of anger broke something precious to them and when they saw it was beyond repair, gathered the pieces together and cut their hands, though they were bleeding and hurting they did not stop until they recreated something new to hold and cherish. They would have stepped back, marvelled at what they had made and then noticed that their hands were not bleeding or hurting anymore. That is what we do with things that are broken, we create something that holds meaning and love for us. And I hope that if you are hurting from broken things that are unfixable, I hope you can find the courage and creativity to make a mosaic of your own. And that you will keep doing it, no matter how many times things fall apart. Just remember that beautiful masterpieces can be created out of broken pieces. - Sarah x