John couldn’t help himself! He just couldn’t resist!
It caught his eye immediately. It was the colours that drew him. Every colour of the rainbow, glistening beautifully in the light. They were radiant.
The problem was the old window was in his neighbour’s skip. James, John’s neighbour, had just bought the old house and was having work done. The skip, which was parked on the roadside, was full to overflowing. Most of it was rubbish, but nestling among the rubble and the planks of wood was the old stained-glass window. On closer inspection it was clearly damaged. Several of the beautiful panes were cracked, it was far from perfect, but John really could see it’s potential.
Ten minutes later John was carrying the window through his front door. How kind of James to let him have it. He was a nice man. “we’re going to get on!” John thought to himself.
Over the next few days John worked painstakingly on the old window, dismantling the old lead, cleaning and repairing broken glass etc before lovingly repolishing it. At last, it was completed!
For many years it hung over the plan glass window in Johns living room. Visitors always commented on it! Its beauty was breath taking. When the sun hit it, the room was filled with glorious, coloured light. Even the repaired cracks added to it.
Once rejected, broken and unloved, that old window became a treasured possession!
A Prayer :
Lord, thank You for Your unfailing love and mercy. Like an old stained-glass window, weathered by time and scarred by cracks, our lives have known brokenness, rejection, and pain. Yet You are the One who restores.
Thank You for putting us back together again. Thank You for restoring us, healing what was wounded, and breathing new life into what seemed lost.
Just as sunlight pours through coloured glass and fills a room with radiant beauty, let Your Holy Spirit shine through us. May our lives tell the story of what you have done! May our lives radiate your glory!
In Jesus’s name. Amen