The Smashed Window — Part 1
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3).
Perhaps there is a Christian young person reading this calendar who feels that their life has been shattered by sin or circumstances. Like a smashed pane of glass, life looks hopeless and the future bleak. Maybe your heart is broken, fragmented into a thousand pieces. The following story illustrates the ability of our God and Saviour to mend broken hearts and broken lives.
In an old cathedral in Europe, a valuable stained glass window lay on the marble floor in a hundred fragments, shattered by the storm. The pieces were gathered up, put in a box and stored in a cellar for many years. One day a visitor came to see the window. Hearing of its fate, he asked if he might have the fragments. “Take them away,” he was told. “We can do nothing with them; they are absolutely useless to us.”
He carefully carried them away. Weeks had passed when an invitation came to the custodians of the cathedral to view a work of art by a famous artist, celebrated for his skill in glass work.
