{"id":935,"date":"2015-03-10T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=935"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:05:35","slug":"broken-and-torn-yet-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/broken-and-torn-yet-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken and Torn yet Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, unusually my girl waited for me at the window again. She was such a joyful girl. And later my wife told me that she had been waiting for me to open her favorite red drink. And my wife she had to wait for me because mama could not open the lid.<\/p>\n

I tried to open for her using my bare hands. It failed.<\/p>\n

Then i took a piece of sturdy cloth. Again it failed.<\/p>\n

My eyes chance upon this broken and torn cloth. My girl shouted to me,”hey it is torn”. I replied to her,”yes, it was torn, but it will fit the purpose”.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it was perfectly fit for the purpose. And I managed to open the lid to her joy. I hope she learnt a good lesson. And it was a good reminder to me also. A broken and torn, ugly cloth, was still better off than a well cloth for that purpose.<\/p>\n

What are we to tell God that something so broken to be used by Him? If such broken ugly torn cloth could be useful to me, how much more each one of us (how ugly, broken, and torn) in the hands of Almighty God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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