suffering- some days i just need this reminder!

they say that when suffering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, god stoops to pick up the pieces- but he doesn't put them back together as a restoration project patterned after our former selves- instead he sifts through the rubble and purposely selects some of the shards as raw material for another project -a mosaic-that so beautifully tells the story of redemption.