Today I am borrowing words from Max Lucado.

Today’s Truth: Hebrews 10:35

“Do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward.”

Is there anything more frail than a bruised reed? Look at the bruised reed at the water’s edge. A once slender and tall stalk of sturdy river grass, it is now bowed and bent.

Are you a bruised reed? Was is so long ago that you stood tall? Then something happened. You were bruised…

• by harsh words
• by a friends anger
• by a spouse’s betrayal…

The bruised reed…Society knows what to do with you…The world will break you off; the world will snuff you out.

But the artists of Scripture proclaim that God won’t. Painted on canvas after canvas in the tender touch of a Creator who has a special place for the bruised and weary of the world. A God who is the friend of the wounded heart.

From Grace for the Moment/ Max Lucado page 347

I hope you enjoyed these words today as much as I did as I drank my coffee and read them out of a devotional. Sometimes there is not a need to say more than what you have taken in from another…so here you go!

Today’s Prayer

Father, I thank you that you understand the wounded places in our hearts. I thank you that you will not snuff us out but rather heal and restore us. I thank you that YOU God are taking the broken and always working in your Beautiful Self in our wounded broken places.