Piece of Junk ~ Work of Art

This is my first 

"before and after".

I almost left it.

It was one of those,

"You want it, you can have it"

kind of deals.

I almost left it.

BUT

I brought it home and 

hid it behind our storage shed . . .

so my husband

wouldn't say,

"What is that?!?"

Then I went to work

determined to get some paint on it

before he got home from the hayfield.

First white paint and black trim.

Then scraps left over from scrapbook pages

and material from last weekend's retreat.

Lots of bird themed papers.

While I worked,

I thought about how I'd almost

left it.

Almost thrown it out.

Almost gave up thinking 

it was

worthless

a

piece

of

garbage. 

And I thought about people.

How many people do we

give

up

on?

How many do we think are

hopeless?

How often do we view our situation

or

worse . . . 

our

self

as

hopeless?

But

no matter what we think

or what others think,

God sees through

the broken, the broke down,

the wounded,

the mess,

to the true worth

deep within.

And transforms

broken lives

into

His

masterpiece.

This is far from "masterpiece"

but it was fun

to bring beauty and value

to an old shelf,

and be grateful

to God who

transformed

my

heart.