Shattered Light Bulb or Ripples in the Water

Have you ever dropped a light bulb stood back to watch how the glass fragmants shatter. How fragile the tiny glass is, how delicate. Just one wrong move and it is wiped out in an instant. One piece that is complete and functional is all at once shattered into a thousand pieces, completely unfunctional, never to be of any value again. No use to any of the other parts, just a bunch of broken glass, a piece of metal and into the trash it goes. How can something that brings such brightness and beauty into our lives create such a hugh mess by it's absence.


Compared to ripples in the water after a disturbance, the water just ripples on and on, touching the next wave, extending on from the point of the disturbance till it finally comes to a place of calm. It shares it's life with everything it touches, it doesn't destroy, it glides across, gently carassing each ripple reminding the next that it has been there.

Some families are like a shattered light bulb after a death. The person who was the center of their family, that common factor that held them together is gone, they shatter, they fragment and they fail. They become trash for the garbage bin.

D's love for me has allowed me to become a ripple in the water, I have been able to gently ripple to Jill, Ian, Carter Dean,Jeremy, JoDee and Daniel. My immediate family is closer than before. The friends D considered family are ripples, they call everday to make sure I am cared for. New friends become more ripples that reach on and on. The disturbance of the water becomes a gentle wave that rocks me into sense of peaceful love surrounding me.

Today I was awakened from my grief stupor by the shock of betrayal that cut me to the core of my being. It reminded me again of how frail humans are just like a thin light bulb our hearts and feelings can be so easily shattered.

Then it hits me no betrayal I face could ever be as severe as what our LORD suffered at the hands of HIS own disciple. What I perceive as betrayal is the devil's work in another's life. Let satan do his do and let GOD take care of me. This is not the first time I have been betrayed by these people, but it should be the last. It is up to GOD to pick up the pieces of this shattered light bulb and repair it.

Tonight dear GOD I give this betrayal to you and ask that just as JESUS ask you to forgive them for they knew not what they did, I ask you to help me to be able to forgive them, for I believe they know exactly what they are doing. The pain they are causing my child and myself is unnecessary and uncalled for. Please forgive me and show me how to forgive and to let go maybe by doing so I can show them how to become a ripple rather than broken glass.