Thursday, November 15, 2007

Making Our Mess Our Message...

This morning on Good Morning America, a feature story was Robin Roberts sharing her journey with breast cancer... today's segment covered her hair loss and getting a wig... what a traumatic experience and how awesome of her for sharing that journey in picture and interview! I am sure she will help countless ladies deal with this and other issues they face when living with breast cancer! Thanks Robin!

During that interview, she said something that made me take note.... when asked why she is doing this in such openness, she said that her mother always said, "make your mess, your message" And I thought WOW!!!! What a great concept! We all have messes in our lives and God can use those messes if we will allow him... when we are honest with our messes, we can help others deal with theirs. God often uses our messes to point us in a direction for ministry. When we do that, we can say to someone who is struggling... "I know what you are going through" and mean it! That's powerful authenticity!

So, let's make our messes our message!

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