Scraps to masterpiece
I was sitting at my desk today at the CEF office doing some of my work when I hear the door open. We don't get many visitors but when we do they are usually very good! So I leave my small desk in the paper room and go check it out. This lady brought in this box with at least 50 small wooden crosses. This one man makes them and it gives him something to do. What might have been the most surprising about these cool little crosses was that they were made of scrap wood! After the lady left Julie, Jackie and I stand around this box of crosses marveling about how beautiful they are. Than the thought hits me. These crosses are another picture of Jesus in our lives. You may be thinking "why of course Karis! It is rather obvious it's a cross. Jesus died on a cross!" Yes, that is true but that is not exactly what I was thinking about. Here it goes:
We are scraps. Life bruises and scars, people take what they want from us not caring how it hurts until there is nothing left but a beat up piece of wood with not much to offer anyone at all. Than Jesus, this wonderful carpenter picks up those scraps and carves and sands away what He needs to to make us beautiful and new :)
Jesus is the only one that can turn something that seems completely useless into something beautiful and an amazing tool :)
So anyways that was my thought about scraps and beautiful things today :)
Thanks for reading!
In His Name,
Karis
Karis that is so neat.
ReplyDeleteKaris, how beautiful. I bet this man doesn't know how much he has touched others lives with his crosses made from scrap in his spare time. You should tell him! What a great evangelistic tool ... give the cross as you tell the story. Sounds like he can have a full time position in making crosses. Gosh, Christmas is just around the corner. See if he'd make a few that you could bring with your earrings. How much should I give him if he'd make a batch? When I sell my soaps I can give out "free" crosses saying, hey, did you get one of these?
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