Lisa Jo is back with a new Five Minute Friday word prompt.
Whole.
For five minutes of unedited bleeding.
GO!
Pieces.
It takes pieces to make a whole.
Atoms and molecules and cells organize into organs and organ systems.
Body parts make a whole body.
God’s made us that way.
To function as a part of His body.
But I’ve been shattered, broken into tiny pieces, sharp shards.
And sometimes God wants it that way.
Allows it so He can put the pieces back together.
Into something even more beautiful.
Whole.
In Him.
To reflect Him.
And He doesn’t want just pieces of me.
He wants all of me.
The whole of me.
My whole heart.
My whole soul.
My whole mind.
Everything.
Every atom of my being.
All of my time.
All the time.
No fragments or fractions.
The whole of it.
All of it.
Because He is all.
Because He is the whole.
Because giving Him my all is only way I can be whole.
And so I hand Him all the broken pieces.
Whole.
STOP!
Question for you: What pieces are you holding back?
I love this five-minute posts. They are so quick, and I never know where they are going to take me.
Others are spilling in five today.
It’s all about whole.
Go see how all the pooled thoughts come together
to make a beautiful picture that’s whole.
P.S. I know your day will be more whole if you back up to yesterday’s photos.
It’ll just take a fraction of a minute. 😉
Popping over from Five Minute Friday – I love your reminder that He wants all of us, our whole selves. Far too often I give Him only parts, but without all the parts, it is impossible to make the whole.
Thanks for coming by, Carrie. You’re right. If we hang on to some pieces, there will always be a hole in the whole.
A beautiful post about the synopsis of the Gospel really. Beautiful.
I hadn’t thought about that. Thanks, Elizabeth.
That was beautiful. Inspiring, actually…
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{{sigh}} What beauty! Wholeness…no parts missing. Peace!
No peace without all the pieces. 😉
What a beautiful way to weave your WHOLE words this week!
There are always pieces that I seem to keep finding that I have to hand over to him all over again, and it is funny how I want to seem to HOLD onto them…when I know that He will make me whole if I give it to Him.
Thanks for the reminder and for stopping by my blog!
When my kids were in preschool, they made me pins made out of three puzzle pieces glued together. I still have them. Great reminder of missing pieces–and how He puts the pieces together.
You have done this so beautifully Sandy. Oh yes, to be whole.
Thanks so much, Linda. Wholly whole. 🙂
Visiting from the 5 Minute Friday. What a beautiful post you’ve written. Yes, I long to Give God my whole being, every part of me. I am so thankful He takes my fragments and makes me whole!
So nice to have you back, Barbie. One of us could write a whole post about fragments and fragmentation. 😉
I always think of wholeness when I read how Jesus instructed the disciples to gather up the fragments from the “picnics”. He does, indeed, want all of our broken pieces.
Oh, Susan. Now you have me thinking on that. He certainly doesn’t waste any of our brokenness.
These words convict me, Sandra.
How many times have I handed over my broken self for Him to make whole again, then failed to give that whole me wholly back to holy Him?
“. . . failed to give that whole me wholly back to holy Him.”
Good words, Sheila.
Thank you, Sandra, both for your kind comment and for your inspiring post.
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