Thanksgiving morning – my heart is full.

As I sit down in a quiet and peaceful mindset, thinking about whatever thought I’m going to share today I reach over and picked up my “favorite” Bible.

You know, the one that’s fallen apart more than once, and now held together with packing tape.

For me, it reads better than any new Bible I own – for some reason I can find right where everything is in the one that’s worn out – I have notes and so many different quotes and sayings that I’ve jotted down along the way that have brought meaning to me at one time or another.

I haven’t look at these in a while, but this morning my eyes went to one thing and one thing only.

In 1997 I copied a quote on the inside left cover that simply reads –

” If my life was broken when I gave it Jesus, it was because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will only satisfy a child”

It’s amazing how we see things differently from the yesterdays to today – the truth is, when we make the decision to follow Him with our broken selves and share in His sufferings it doesn’t always get easier, no, we’ll normally find more brokenness to follow, and no, we don’t always see the point in our suffering, but trust me when I say – when we hand it to Him, we can absolutely trust He’s going to bless it.

We’re all bruised, broken and just plain busted up people.

We must learn that we simply don’t need to hide it – He wants us to give it away and He wants us to trust Him to simply bring on the redemption and to bring on the healing.

If any of you are like me – there’s a whole lot of healing that has been and will continue to be done in our lives. We’re starving for it, and Jesus Himself invites us to join Him in feeding the multitudes

He’s the One running the show and performing the miracles, but none of us should want to miss out on being a part of His show simply because we’re too afraid to show our “broken” or to give away the pieces.

So yes sweet friends, on this Thanksgiving Day with all the love and blessings around us – we must be brave, and yes, we must allow His glory to be revealed, while all the while remembering – nothing we have done or will do will ever shock Him.

Yet, our own brokenness, can and will – help the next person discover the beauty in their own “broken” world in which they live.

Truth – people loving people, just the way He intended it to be.

We are loved by Love Himself. He loves us big and He loves us strong, and yes – love wins period

Happy Thanksgiving – have a beautifully blessed day!

“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” James 5:16

#lovewinsperiod