Broken Pieces Poem by Lisa Hare Wimberly

In the truly difficult times, when you take a look at your life, you may see only what's gone wrong. It may be the loss of a job that you thought would be a lifelong career, a broken marriage that was supposed to be "till death do us part" or an accident that would alter your life forever. You may think that life isn't fair, or that God has overlooked you and is focusing on someone "more deserving" of His attention. But that's not the way God works.
After the dissolution of a 24-year marriage, I was devastated. At age 47, I had to start life over—alone. But in my time alone with the Lord, He showed me that everything I went through in those 24 years—both the good and the bad—molded me into the person I am today. He not only put my life back together, but He used my present and my past to do it. He used it to strengthen my relationship with my Heavenly Father. Three-and-a-half years after the divorce, He brought a wonderful Christian man into my life and called me to leave a successful career in Texas to move to Indiana and become his wife. All of the pieces in my life also prepared me to be a foster parent for the next six years for teenage boys whose lives had also been broken.
David tells us in Psalm 38: 8 & 9, "I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You." He is there to mend your broken heart, to take all the "broken pieces" that have accumulated through your life, and to use them to make your life something beautiful, something new.