Saturday, January 31, 2009

All purpose glue

I dropped the lid from one of our favorite holiday cookie jars and it broke into about 4 pieces.
It was a nice jar--ceramic, red with overlapping white snowflakes.
I've had no luck gluing ceramics in the past, so I dispaired at losing this cheerful friend in our kitchen. 
At the local hardware store there were half a dozen high-tech looking glue products. I toyed with a few of the packages, but remembered past failures and false labeling promises. One of the owners saw me hesitate, and he reached for the simplest, least expensive product - Duco Cement - and handed it to me. Sure enough, the packaging said it would bond wood, ceramics, and some other household products. Too good to be true at that price. But the store guy shrugged his shoulders.
"They've been around for years and it works."
Sure enough, I had the lid glued and drying in no time. I was so relieved that I went and found two of my other broken embarrassments and fixed them too. Now they're back on display in our home - it really made me happy, because I thought they were lost forever.
Look, if you need ceramic repair--buy Duco cement. It works--I've seen it work...and on some beautiful pieces that had been broken and put aside for years.
But if you're broken; if your heart, or your life is broken, get Jesus. 
Don't go for all those fancy packaged belief systems--just lots of false promises and no results. I've seen Jesus work. Simple, no-frills redemption. Go find the pieces (or friends, or family) you thought nobody could put back together again; and then get them back out for everyone to see and enjoy.    
I wasn't sure whether I was even going to try and believe again -- but the guy that knew the simple Truth wasn't afraid to walk up and share it with me.

What do you believe?