God bless the broken road. It seems that the broken things
are things that God. Vance Hanver puts it this way, “God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce
a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to
give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is
Peter the Apostle, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.”
God bless the broken road. If you’ve
ever been along the Blue Ridge Parkway, you see that the rock formations, rocks
we consider to be some of the toughest, strongest elements on earth are full of
brokenness and cracked edges. Sandy and Renee took a leap of faith; they gave
love a chance after love had in fact in their separate lives, broken. But the
brokenness of love isn’t like the rocks of the earth that crack and chip off.
Sure, love may be hurt, but it is as resilient, like a flame that just won’t go
out. It catches fire and recreates, it restores the lives that have broken into
something beautiful.
God bless the broken road. Renee
left everything she knew, every dream, every reality she had ever known for a
chance at a new beginning. Sandy for all intents and purposes had lost much of
what he had built in an established career and life in Virginia. But what
changes with us when we love is that love gives us the opportunity for the
things of this earth, the trials and tribulations to become strangely dim in
the light of love. In the light of love, leaving home and a career and what we
had known for a chance at love is a risk. But for Renee and Sandy, that
risk paid off.
God bless the broken road. How many
times have we spent our lives just passing through? How many times have we
given up because the going got tough? When Jesus gave himself fully and completely,
the night before he died took bread and broke pieces off and gave them to his
disciples. When the supper was over he took a cup of wine, wine that had been
grapes that were crushed. But the wheat that made that bread, the grapes that
made the wine were destroyed by themselves, when they were put together they
became the body and blood of our blessed Savior.
God bless the broken road. That
sacrament we still celebrate even to this day of brokenness and new beginnings
is an example for Sandy and Renee of true, unconditional, abiding love. “How
can we name a love that weakens heart and mind, in dwelling all we do or see or
know or wish to find? Within our daily world, in every human face, Love echoes
round and God is found within the common place.”
God bless the broken road. Sandy and
Renee are experiencing a love that God has ordained for us to experience. They
are experiencing something beyond measure, priceless in value, and beautiful in
existence. Within the context of marriage God has shown that there is potential
for love, harmony and joy. That doesn’t mean that love doesn’t come without
trials and tribulations. However Sandy and Renee can look back on that broken
road, and realize that it led them to each other. God bless the broken road
that led me straight to you.
