Held Together 

“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ”Colossians 1:17

In many ways, I feel as if I am learning to trust God to hold together all the fragments of my life. Returning to Him all that feels unfinished, uncertain and at times broken beyond repair. Again and again, I place my hopes and dreams, my husband, my children and their futures, my parents health, friendships, family, fractured relationships and the state of our wounded and warring world back into His all-loving hands. 

These many things pull and tear at my heart. My thoughts and fears like shards of shattered glass, sharp and jagged. I want to see peace, beauty and wholeness but the rough and broken bits keep cluttering my vision. My hopes and dreams burst to breaking at the seams yet feel as if they will never come to fruition but instead fray and tatter and waste away. It seems impossible to imagine how all the pieces will fit together. 

Yet, I know that He holds me and He holds all things together. He is closer than my breath and so:

I breathe in—

Help me live by faith. 

I breathe out—

Not by sight. 

All for love, Jesus our Redeemer was beaten and broken, died and rose again to bring each of us wholeness and unity with our Heavenly Father. With His nail-pierced, scared hands, He takes the fragmented pieces of our lives and faith and He places them back together. Out of the tattered, frayed and broken, He reclaims and restores, creating a masterpiece out of His unfathomable grace and mercy. 

Not by sight but by faith, I behold the unseen remaking and redemption of all things broken being made whole and beautiful. Nothing is lost. His promises hold true and piece by precious piece, He is at work, in and through, and all around me. 

“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”

Colossians 1:19-20 NIV

“He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.””

Revelation 21:5 NIV

“For we live by faith, not by sight.”

2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV