Through the cracks
"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful." ~Barbara Bloom
A rock hit my windshield today while I was driving on the highway. It was a big rock, I was driving fast and it made a loud thunk when it broke the glass. My first reaction was one of shock because the sound was loud and the impact was severe. The spot began to creep like a spiderweb immediately and I was helpless to the effects it had on my windshield.
My life has been like this. There have been times when events of the day have hit as hard as that rock did. The shock and the impact were just as severe. When we moved to Korea and I found myself behind a large wall in a foreign country unable to speak the language or understand the culture, it was a jarring change. The uncertainty crept through me as I questioned my confidence in moving so far away from home. When I realized that I was only able to manage my attitude instead of the situation, my focus changed from the differences of our new host nation to the unique opportunity we were afforded to live in Asia. My time in Korea changed me forever.
When I turned my truck into the sunlight to return to my starting place, something amazing happened to the crack in the windshield. It glistened and shone. Where there once was only light shining in, there was now a prism, a rainbow. Life is like this too. The things that appear to be horrible flaws in our plans or our character or our ideals turn out to be the means to a very beautiful discovery. When things are shattered or disrupted, it is very often the time that we learn the most.
Jo Dee Messina has a song that I love titled I Wear My Life. It is a song about living a life that shows on the outside. My life has been full of amazing things. I have my flaws and scars and cracks. Where I've been has left a mark on me and it is through those marks that I see more and more of my rainbows. It is a life worth wearing.
A rock hit my windshield today while I was driving on the highway. It was a big rock, I was driving fast and it made a loud thunk when it broke the glass. My first reaction was one of shock because the sound was loud and the impact was severe. The spot began to creep like a spiderweb immediately and I was helpless to the effects it had on my windshield.
My life has been like this. There have been times when events of the day have hit as hard as that rock did. The shock and the impact were just as severe. When we moved to Korea and I found myself behind a large wall in a foreign country unable to speak the language or understand the culture, it was a jarring change. The uncertainty crept through me as I questioned my confidence in moving so far away from home. When I realized that I was only able to manage my attitude instead of the situation, my focus changed from the differences of our new host nation to the unique opportunity we were afforded to live in Asia. My time in Korea changed me forever.
When I turned my truck into the sunlight to return to my starting place, something amazing happened to the crack in the windshield. It glistened and shone. Where there once was only light shining in, there was now a prism, a rainbow. Life is like this too. The things that appear to be horrible flaws in our plans or our character or our ideals turn out to be the means to a very beautiful discovery. When things are shattered or disrupted, it is very often the time that we learn the most.
Jo Dee Messina has a song that I love titled I Wear My Life. It is a song about living a life that shows on the outside. My life has been full of amazing things. I have my flaws and scars and cracks. Where I've been has left a mark on me and it is through those marks that I see more and more of my rainbows. It is a life worth wearing.
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