That Lovely Fact

     Maybe you feel less than perfect today. Broken hearted? Or just a little unworthy of the responsibilities that are in store today. Then this word is for you. And me.

     Psalm 49:19 "When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer."
²³      Psalm 37:23-24 "The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Thoug they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand."

     "Do you know that lovely fact about the opal?  That in the first place, it is made only of desert dust, sand, and silica, and owes its beauty and preciousness to a defect.  It is a stone with a broken heart.  It is full of minute fissures which admit air, and the air refracts the light.  Hence its lovely hue and that sweet lamp of fire that ever burns at its heart, for the breath of the Lord God is in it.  You are only conscious of the cracks and desert dust, but so He makes His precious opal.  We must be broken in ourselves before we can give back the lovely hues of His light, and the lamp in the temple can burn in us and never go out."  - Ellice Hopkins