Beautiful, the mess we are…….

Sometimes I get a song going in my head and it takes up residence. I sing it, ponder it and see how it applies to life. I live music, it’s who I am. If I love it and it touches my soul it becomes a part of me. Well a new song, “Better than a Hallelujah” by Amy Grant has a line in it that’s weaving it’s way into my heart. It talks about us pouring out our misery’s and the honest cries of our breaking hearts and what God hears and sees. The line that is becoming part of me is,

Beautiful the mess we are……

Not many people know but years ago when I was just beginning to think about starting a ministry I wanted to call it Messy Life Ministries….Because life is a mess, and so are we. We can try so hard to lead a clean, manageable, easy life but it still gets messy. Whether it is a job lost, a spouse that decides they don’t love us anymore, difficulties with our children, broken hearts or broken bodies, ailing parents, shot dreams and expectations of what we thought life would be and poor choices that create consequences that live with us daily….life is messy. There is not a immunization that can keep mess off of us.

But as I coach people and hear about their messes and knowing my mess, all I can see it how beautiful God sees us. It’s when we cry out to him that he can make something beautiful out of our mess. I see us sitting there like a child with mud head to toe looking at him saying, “What now?” I think he smiles and says “Beautiful one,  come to me and let me rain down my grace and mercy to clear the mud out of your eyes and help you find joy within the mess.”

So today if you are feeling like life is messy and you are covered in it, go to him. He loves you in spite of the mess. Let him show you how beautiful you are to Him. Then stand under the showers of his love, grace and mercy and SING OUT because you are loved…..Beautiful the mess we ALL are.