Summary: <br> Sometimes good plans fall apart. They say it’s so better plans can come together, but in the moment it doesn’t feel better, does it? It just looks like a mess. A mess of broken pieces. A pile of what could have been, but now isn’t. What do you do with the broken pieces? How about you give them to God!<br> Oh my sister, you cannot imagine all God wants to do with the parts of your life that didn’t work out! You cannot fathom the work he can do in your mess.<br> Have you ever read a story and been impacted by it, then had it actually happen in your life? Let me tell you what happened yesterday. My friend Michelle shared a Facebook post that immediately moved me to tears. Her post said:<br> Today i was walking in the supermarket and suddenly I heard a noise of things breaking. I turned down an aisle and saw a group of people staring at an older lady who had hit a shelf containing plates and glasses with her cart. Many had fallen to the floor and broken.<br> Kneeling on the floor embarrassed, the lady was frantically picking up the shattered pieces, while her husband peeled off each bar code saying “we have to pay for all this.”<br> What a sad scene. Someone has a mishap and all eyes were on her. When I knelt beside her to help, a man also knelt beside us and said, “leave it, we will pick this up. Let’s get your information so you can go to the hospital and have that wound on your hand looked at”<br> The lady looked at him and said “but I have to pay for this.”<br> The man said, “No ma’am, I’m the manager and we have insurance for this. You don’t have to pay for anything. Let’s get you taken care of.”<br> Now this is where it gets good. The Facebook post then said:<br> Close your eyes and imagine God doing the same for you. Collect the pieces of your broken heart from all the misteps and blows that life has thrown at you. God will heal your wounds and your sins and mistakes will be forgiven.<br> This is the warranty called grace, that when you accept Jesus as your savior, the manager of the existence of the entire universe will tell you “everything is already paid for … go on your way.”<br> When I read this yesterday morning, two things happened:<br> 1. My eyes were immediately filled with tears, receiving this very personal message from God knowing he he taken care of all my broken pieces.<br> 2. I knew this was a devotional in the making.<br> But then God, being the God who puts the awe in awesome, allowed me to experience this lesson personally. Yesterday afternoon Lonnie and I were at the grocery store. As we were putting our items on the belt to checkout, a glass jar of capers slipped right out of Lonnie’s hand and met the fate of the cement floor. The jar shattered and capers scattered, and I nearly shouted “God’s got this!” but that would have been awkward.<br> Ahhhh, that God would allow me kneel down and attempt to pick up the pieces myself and then have our sweet cashier Wendy on que from God say, “no honey, don’t you worry about that, we will take care of it.”<br> I had already picked up the larger piece of the broken glass which included the barcode and offered it to Wendy telling her we would pay for what we had broken. She quickly met me with “that’s nonsense, you don’t need to pay anything.”<br> To think I broke it, but I didn’t have to buy it. It was covered.<br> This is exactly what God has done for us. He knew we would break the covenant. He knew we would go astray. He knew we would mess things up. He knew we would drop the ball, we would shatter his good plans, we would stray from the wholeness he had offered, so he sent Jesus to cover us. The manufacturer’s warranty that blankets our every mistake, that’s Jesus.<br> Yes I broke it, but Jesus fixes it.<br>
