Shattered

Shattered

Shattered.

The pieces strewn across the ground.

No piece like another piece.

Each piece uniquely different.

Broken but not beyond redemption.

For who would buy a broken vessel except me?

I love the broken bits, the fragments, the fragments of what once was whole.

Restoration, redemption and renewal.

Bought with a price.

A collection of fragments.

Worthless fragments?

Yet there is value in the gathering.

Gather up the fragments so nothing shall be lost or wasted.

For there is power in the gathering.

For the broken is not without worth.

Before the breaking I gave thanks.

After the breaking you will give thanks.

From the small shall come the large.

For what looks like division is multiplication in my hands.

After the breaking you expect there to be less.

The one becoming two halves.

The whole broken, the whole divided, the whole separated, the whole broken apart, into its components.

Get what you shall gather is not like that which you started with.

The one basket becomes the 12 baskets.

The one seed becomes 12 variants.

The one multiplied to become the 12.

The collection of fragments, the collection of that which has multiplied.

For the one shattered becomes the many component pieces.

The packaging of the components.

The collection of the fragments.

The bundling of the fragments.

The containment that defines wholeness.

A different mix.

The same but different.

Not the left overs, but the chosen pieces, the blessed pieces.

Matthew 14:19 Then He ordered the crowds to recline on the grass; and He took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up to heaven, He gave thanks and blessed and broke the loaves and handed the pieces to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

The breaking was blessed.

For the component is more valuable than the whole piece.

John 6:11-13 Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed to the disciples and the disciples to the reclining people; so also [He did] with the fish, as much as they wanted. When they had all had enough, He said to His disciples, Gather up now the fragments (the broken pieces that are left over), so that nothing may be lost and wasted. So accordingly they gathered them up, and they filled twelve [small hand] baskets with fragments left over by those who had eaten from the five barley loaves.

Look for distribution, prepare for distribution, to give them as much as they want.

First the giving, then the thankfulness, then the blessing, then the breaking, then the handing of the piece, then the receiving by the reclining, then the abundant satisfaction, then the gathering and the abundant satisfaction for the giver.