So let’s picture a casual drive down the road. Going to work, or maybe going to a friend’s house, getting a cup of coffee, or whatever it might be. Just cruisin’ and letting the road take you. The windshield is nice and clean when out of nowhere a rock flies up and hits the glass! The old dreaded chip. The craziest part of the whole thing is that if you don’t have the chip fixed right away then you find a growing little friend start to happen making him the crack.

The crack when neglected quickly becomes a much larger friend than first hoped that he would become. He kind of takes over, streaming from one end of the eye shield to the other. You soon find that your little friend has made it difficult for you to see through. Well let’s just say this continues to happen and before you know it your once clean piece of glass has become quite a broken one. He we have the broken glass.

I find this is very parallel to our lives. Life is always throwing stones at us. From choices, or other’s choices, or just the many let downs that we all go through. Life hurls some rocks, and the part that is parallel is the glass. Those stones we take, quickly crumble our lives, making life blurry and hard to see through.

I guess what I am realizing, and this only after taking many chips and cracks myself, is that if we don’t face life and get honest with ourselves, and mend the shattered spots in our hearts, then our lives will eventually crumble into a heap of broken glass. What is this thing that we struggle to be honest with? It’s not saying this, “God I want to love you more than I want you to solve my problems.�

When we feel shattered and broken by life’s unpredicting happenings, we can easily scream to God and ask, “Why?� A quick fix will do and then we will go back to our own road until we get another stone at us.

But God calls us to love Him more above our problems, distracted and confused minds, and this world we call life. I believe there’s more in this world that doesn’t contain such hardships, but only blessings. In the move Shawshank Redemption, the words of Red near the end ring true, “Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don’t forget…forget that there are places in the world that aren’t made out of stone. That there’s a place. There’s something inside that they can’t get to, that they can’t tough. That’s yours.�

God is in you Christian. He is in every part of your life and the world can’t touch Him. When He is our focus, healing will begin. Sometimes we’ll discover that we were fixed a long time before we thought. Love God first and soon you’ll realize that he doesn’t super glue that windshield. No, he gives you a brand new one.

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