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I serve well in my brokenness NOT just when I’m perfect and ready.”
I had a thought today.
As I was in my prayer time....which doesn’t happen when it should..but when I need it.
...this thought....
Do I come today in service to you God to be a gift I can serve the world with as my broken self?
Or do I come to you ready to serve when I’ve got all of myself figured out?
It’s the thing we all do.
Wait.
To put our purpose or our gift out there until we are perfect and ready.
We wait in fear.
Knowing we are NOT perfect and ready.
...And question: will we ever be ready?
We worry.
Because the world makes us believe that everyone else around us is NOT broken and has it all together.
So I thought....
Is our gift to the world only good when we "GET perfect"?
Or is what we have to give STILL GOOD even in our brokenness?
Do we wait until we have figured out the problems and have solved them and are now the savior of our own lives?
As if we were once broken and are now whole?
And I felt These words...
“You serve well IN your brokenness Kim.....not just when you are perfect and ready.
Because you are PERFECTLY READY in your brokenness."
So often we feel like we have to have it all together.
That we are perfectly managing ourselves to have the answers and to be the best.
To.be.Perfect.
And even in my own experience....
My own life in the last 5 years has grown to be bigger than I ever imagined....
Not through some sort of “having figured it out”...
But by sharing my struggle. My brokenness.
It is not in perfection that people are attracted to my work or my gift.
But BY my brokenness.
My want to share my struggles. In hopes that others can share in it and feel less alone.
Gods promise isn’t a life void of struggle...
But a life, if we lend our hearts to a beautiful blend of gratitude and struggle, of TRUE happiness.
And in that.... is something that I can lean on.
Because none of us are less broken than the other.
We are all capable of greatness THROUGH our brokenness.