Stained Glass Part 3

As I gazed up at this glass marvel, catching the light, I saw it as a simple picture of the Christian life. We are designed to reflect the light -- this is our God-given purpose. Sometimes it feels like we have made this impossible. Our glass is dirty, and broken, and etched by hundreds of mistakes and bad decisions.
But God redeems.
Stained glass is gorgeous because of the way the Master joins the pieces to reflect the light. And yet, often we are angry or bitter when God begins to cut or break our lives into pieces that can be used.
But God keeps working.
Through those very pieces we fought Him tooth-and-nail on, God creates what we said we wanted all along: To glorify Him and reflect His light to a lost and dying world.
Through our success and our failures may others see Christ in us. Amen.