Restoration

 While busy going through the process of taking off the broken window frames, sanding them, sanding them some more, adding wood filler etc, etc, I experienced something very special... 

What a process, to restore an old neglected window frame...

Certain things need to be done to this once beautiful and perfect frame to be able to be restored. On it's own, it will never become whole and new ... It has to be taken out of the 'structure', to the working station, where the process of restoration can be performed.

The big sanding machine removes all the old paint and dead wood - surely a painful process. How often do we have to go through pain in order to grow ... We have to get rid of unneeded baggage, added by this world or experiences in life that has damaged our inner pure person created by God to serve Him ...

 After the first attempt of sanding, the frame might come out looking smooth like this... or reveal some real damage ...

that needs more ...

 and special attention ...

God is so interested in each broken 'window frame' in this world whom He has created in order to be vessels to show His Glory to the world,

To be attractive bearers of light

To bless those around us

That He will do everything to restore us...

He will sand us ... if it means using a machine, sanding paper or even an iron brush...

He will fill those scars with love, His love, with mercy, with empathy by sending His children over our paths...

He wants us to shine, to be beautiful, to be attractive to the lost around us ... to bring beauty and love to this world...

Embrace the process of restoration in your life. If it entails experiencing pain or discomfort, embrace it ... grow through it ... so that you can shine again. For Him and for those around you!

The dictionary echoed what I have been experiencing about this amazing word, restoration:

res·to·ra·tion

1.

the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.

2.

the state or fact of being restored.

3.

a return of something to a former, original, normal, or unimpaired condition.

4.

restitution of something taken away or lost.

5.

something that is restored, as by renovating.