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by Ruth Bell
Graham
He had built for himself a great house
on one of the Caribbean islands. It is a thing to behold. Tall
rusty iron columns, collected and resurrected with an
ingenious homemade device. This Great House is a masterpiece
of salvaged materials.
A collector and seller
of scrap metal as well as antiques, he was also fascinated
with broken bits and pieces of china dug from his front yard.
His friends, John and June Cash, laughingly remarked it was
the first time they had heard of a yard sale where the man had
sold the yard itself. Carefully he fitted and glued the pieces
together. Few ever came out whole. They remained simply a
collection of one who cared.
When I expressed
interest, he gave me a blue-and-white plate, carefully glued
together ~ pieces missing.
"You remind me of
God," I said. By the look on his face, I knew I shocked him,
and I hurriedly explained.
"God pieces
back broken lives lovingly. Sometimes a piece is irretrievably
lost. But still He gathers what He can and restores
us."
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