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 The story goes that every time a sailor is lost at
sea, a Mermaid cries and her tears wash up on shore as glass. But
this glass covered beach was created by people. Time and the
pounding surf have corrected one of man's most careless mistakes.
After the GREAT QUAKE of 1906 that devastated San Francisco, there
was no place to dump all of the building debris. So the townspeople
chose to clear the rubble by dumping it in the ocean, thinking it
would wash away. Much to their surprise, it didn’t. For years and
years, it just built up until they decided to burn it. But that
didn’t work either. Dumping continued there until, believe it or
not, the mid-1960's.
Now, many years later, nature has cleansed and reclaimed this beach.
Years of pounding waves and tidal action have crushed, rounded and
polished tons of glass and piled it there. From trash to treasure.
Beauty from a dump. What nature has done by accident, God does
regularly.
God would use some pretty messed up, broken, and unnoticed people to
bring about the miracle of Christ birth. Just one look at Jesus’
genealogy will shock you. No perfect people there. Nothing but pain
and sorrow and failure and brokenness and sin.
And then Jesus shows up.
Maybe this wasn’t your best year. Maybe it is marked with a lot of
pain. You’ve tried to bury your feelings but you know you can’t.
You’ve tried to replace your loses, but again, you can’t. You are
grieving alone, crying alone, feeling alone. Your family doesn’t
support you. You’ve been let down by people closest to you. You've
been unfairly treated. You feel worthless.
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God isn’t done writing your story. “But I’ve made
such a mess of things!” Yes! We all have! Truth be told, that’s back
when I was writing my story without God. But now I’m asking Him to
write the rest. Maybe it’s time to allow Jesus into the muck and the
mire of your life? Maybe you could ask Him to write the rest of your
story? You know, He already has a happy ending for you!
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