We love to cheer for the underdog and believe to our core that
every life makes a difference. And we are right. There is no one
God can't use and no one whose brokenness is too broken for God. We
know this is true for our friends when we want to encourage them.
Yet, when it comes to the places of our innermost sense of shame
and regret, we often wonder if it is really true that God can work
all things together for good for those who love Him.
Angie Smith is one who was quick to encourage a friend, but
struggled to believe that God could truly make something
spectacular out of her broken- ness and disappointments. Responding
to God's leading to both break and reconstruct a simple pitcher,
she reflected:
"It was as though God were saying," here you are, Angie. You are
mended. You are filled with my Spirit, and I am asking you to pour
yourself out.
"The image of my life as a broken pitcher was beautiful to me, but
at the same time, it was hard to look at all of the cracks. I ran
my fingers along them and told Him I wish it had been different.
How I wished I had always loved Him, always obeyed Him, always
sought Him the way I should. I was mad at the imperfections, years
wasted, gaping holes where it should be smooth. But God, my
ever-gracious God, was gentle and yet convicting as He explained.
My dearest Angie. How do you think the world has seen me? If it
wasn't for the cracks, I couldn't seep out the way I do. I chose
the pitcher. I chose you, just as you are.
"
"Mended" takes you on a journey to show how faith lived in the
regular events of daily life is all that it takes to be a part of
creating God's picture of redemption in your life and those around
you. Your life does make a difference--because of how He is
magnified in the cracks.
Endorsements:
Even the blindest heart could behold the gift of God upon Angie
Smith. The messages teeming from her life, her voice, and her pen
have the capacity to pierce through all our protective barriers. As
she communicates, she throws herself into the same lot with the
rest of us who struggle with fears and self-doubts and flaws but
she leaves none of us languishing there. God speaks hope, help, and
healing through Angie and does it so endearingly and even so
humorously that you let your guard down and receive, even before
you meant to. I first became acquainted with Angie's story through
her blog and remember reading the entire story of her darling baby
girl, Audrey, in one sitting. I felt like she was talking straight
to me across a small coffee table as she described the
heartbreaking news of Audrey's prognosis, the weeks of pregnancy
still to come, and the sacred moments they held her in their arms
before God swept her into His. She wrote about how Audrey would
remain in their hearts forever and, through her story, she has
remained in many of ours. Once I got to know more of Angie's
journey, I was slack-jawed by the realization that the two of us
had our own connection in Christ. The Lord Jesus had called her to
salvation as she worked through the Bible study called "Breaking
Free." What grace to tie two women's lives together with journeys
so different by the same woven thread of redemption He called me to
write that journey out of the restoration He brought from my own
brokenness. That He would use it to accomplish something so
life-giving in her brought me to my knees. I knew her to be a
gifted writer as I read her blog, but it was not long before I saw
more than that. I saw God blend a natural giftedness for writing
with a clear determination to surrender that gift to one gorgeous
end: Christ's great fame. And then, I also saw a friend. Angie
Smith is a true writer- one who has a perspective that comes only
from walking through every shade of life "and" the shadow of death
in His tight grasp."
-Beth Moore, Living Proof Ministries
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