Always Messed Up? The Mess Is Part of Your Gift
The trouble with you? You’re a mess — it turns out that’s a key part of your life purpose
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5 min readNov 3, 2020
The mess is part of your gift? Life hands you your worst nightmare; you somehow face it, helping others and yourself in the process.
We all face messes — but everything in life is also a gift, including those messes we avoid, clean, endure, escape, or overcome.
“‘We’re all guilty because of what we did to our brother!’ they told each other. ‘We kept on watching his suffering while he pleaded with us! We’re in this mess because we wouldn’t listen!’” (Genesis 42:21, ISV).
Life begins — and ends — with perfection and massive messes co-existing side-by-side. Every day in between birth and death includes messed up moments as well as moments of perfection:
- The perfectly formed infant and a messy afterbirth come into the world together along with a life of agony and ecstasy.
- The ugly messes we endure as our bodies fall apart come as prodigal loved ones return for end-of-life miracle reconciliations.
- Life keeps handing us messes. Do we clean them up? Run from them? Or wallow in them?
“And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but…
