Hello God, it's me, Mara

You know, Lord, mending day happens to just about everyone; there are socks, shirts, jeans, oh, you name it and whatever it is, there will come a time when it probably needs mending. Besides clothing, there is upholstery, fences, relationships and even broken hearts to mend. Mending clothing isn’t too complicated but who really likes it when mending day rolls around? Times have changed as have most all materials. We can hardly even imagine our grandma mending clothes for kids and for grandpa.

Mending takes time and patience, needle and thread, scissors and patches and now and then, even the sewing machine is put to work. When the mending basket gets full, it’s time to get to work. Once started one can always ask You, Lord, to bless the owner of the item of clothing we’re mending.

Mom told us that socks are easiest to mend, fences are not impossible; they just take a whole different set of tools. Relationships take time and lots of prayer; but the hardest of all to mend is a broken heart. Broken hearts do happen and that is where You come in, Lord. Proverbs 4:23 (N LT), Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. 

We’re to guard our hearts for they are the wellspring of life. Helping to break hearts is “one who speaks like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health. The truthful lip shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.” Your Word says that You make new hearts and in another place, that our hearts shall live for ever! You, oh Lord, are in the heart mending business. Grant us the grace to use wise tongues to promote health, to be menders, not breakers of hearts. Thank you, Lord.

Love, Mara