I tried this craft for the first time yesterday with my preschool class. It turned out to be super simple and really beautiful! 💞
And of course, it reminded me of the spiritual too.
God chooses for his kingdom not the “perfect” crayons but the broken ones.
Maybe freshly broken and hurting,
or maybe after we have been broken awhile and have decided to look on the bright side and say that “broken crayons 🖍️ still color.”
For whatever reason, God doesn’t see our brokenness as making us inferior, but SUPERior— (not in a prideful way, but as in ready for the picking! Ready to be turned into something even better than an intact single color!)
He picks us up and peels off our labels.
This can be a tedious process, (as our preschoolers learned.)
It can be hard to be patient, in that process.
Some of us like our labels and don’t want to let go of them.
Some of us hate our labels and want to shed them but they feel stuck onto us, like there’s no way they’re going to come off.
But God always succeeds in the ones who will allow Him to.
Also, He sticks us together with other broken crayons who have had their labels removed.
This is church.
We sit in the son-shine and He melts our hearts, blurs our differences. Makes us into something more colorful than we could have ever been on our own.
Of course we must go out into the real world too. This is the cold atmosphere that forces us to stick together, (sometimes going through the hard things together binds us best, doesn’t it?)
While we may not understand any of this while it’s happening, eventually we will see it.
We will recognize that He has made us into a part of something beautiful!
That He has gifted us the opportunity to go color a 𝓉𝓇𝓊ℯ rainbow- a sign of ℋℐ𝒮 goodness and faithfulness and promises- on the world around us.
His ways are so different from ours.
But He is love.
So. Much. ℒ𝒪𝒱ℰ!
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