Do you ever feel dented, damaged and bruised? Most of do at one time or another. Read this uplifting article from Catholic Digest...
I have a Mother Mary statue I keep outside the entry of our house. Her paint is peeling and days spent in the scorching sun have faded her once beautiful mantle. If they move too fast around her, my children knock her face first into the dirt. Once they realized what they’ve done, they pick her up and bring her dead flowers or weeds in reparation. They crown her with tacky, bedazzled makeshift tiaras.
My Blessed Mother looks like she’s seen better days. Yet, I can’t bear to part with her.
Perhaps it’s because the cracked resin figure reminds me I too am broken and imperfect.
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