Broken and Beautiful

This month I was called as the Relief Society Secretary. So I won't be teaching Tai's primary class with Kyle anymore. I'm serving with Missy Beckstrom, Julie Eddington and Liberty Pugh. Hopefully they don't think I am too high maintenance because I am the only one with kids at home!

Our first Sunday we all taught the lesson together, Tai and I sang 'Where Love Is' with a small group in sacrament meeting, and Kyle got called in to work to recover a body after an avalanche. Oh and we hosted the Super Bowl at our house too. Busy day!

We all taught from Elder Hirst's talk Gods Favourite and the part that stood out to me was, "We can confidently disregard brokenness in any way disqualifying us from heavenly love- every time we sing the hymn that reminds us that our beloved and flawless Saviour chose to be "bruised, broken, torn for us," every time we take broken bread. Surely Jesus removes all shame from the broken. Through His brokenness He became perfect, and He can make us perfect in spite of our brokenness. Broken, lonely, torn and bruised He was- and we may feel we are- but separated from the love of God we are not. "Broken people, perfect love," as the song goes."

It reminded me of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold, understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. And this artwork incorporating Christ with kintsugi. He has felt our brokenness, He was broken for us and he is there to comfort and love us in our brokenness. As we trust His love, we can hand him our broken pieces and He will be there to help heal us and make something beautiful of our broken pieces. His love and His teachings will be seen running through our life. His light will shine through the cracks to light the way for others.

Even though we are all a little bit broken, we are BEAUTIFUL.

Broken and Beautiful by Calee Reed

“When the light shines through me

All the broken pieces

Reflect His light

It's a beautiful sight

All the scars and spaces

Where the battles hurt me

Let more light in

Flood me with Him

You may see

Flaws in me

I'm not perfect

But I was never meant to be

 

He'll use each piece 

To make a masterpiece”

 

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen

“God loves broken things.” -Kenneth Cope

 

Kyle and Kasen also got to go teach a lesson, with the missionaries, to a boy in our ward, that's Kasen's age. When they got home Kasen said, "Well I guess I know what my future looks like now!" Kyle is so great and taught Kasen about how he and his companion would say a prayer together before going into a lesson, so that's what he and Kasen did too. Later that week the missionaries came to share a message with our family too! And I LOVED it. They shared Alma 30:44 "Everything denotes there is a God." Then asked each of us to go find something from around the house and bring it to the middle of the floor. We went around and talked about how the things in the middle can relate to the gospel. We had a vacuum, that can make things clean again, just like Christ. We had Kolt's fidget car and talked about not getting distracted by the things of the world on our way to where we're going. There was the Hungry Hippo game that reminded us to feast on the Words of Christ. An orange, which Kasen said reminded him of the olive vineyard in the longest chapter of the Book of Mormon and Adam and Eve AND the Tree of Life, trying to help all of our family make it back together. Such a fun way to teach a family with kids!

We also got to go to Aiden's baptism! 

So this month has been a spiritual high for me so far and I am loving it!