A Beautiful Heart

A Beautiful Heart

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town 

proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.
A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect.
There was not a mark or a flaw in it.
Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen.
The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said,
"Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine."
The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart.
It was beating strongly ... but it was full of scars ...
it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in ...
but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges.
In fact ... in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.
The people stared ... how can he say his heart is more beautiful... they thought?

The young man looked at the old man's heart ... and saw its state and laughed.  

"You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine ...
mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."
"Yes" ... said the old man ... "yours is perfect looking but ...
I would never trade with you.
You see ... every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love ... 
I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them ... 
and often they give me a piece of their heart
which fits into the empty place in my heart... 
but because the pieces aren't exact ...
I have some rough edges ... which I cherish ... 
because they remind me of the love we shared.

Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away ...
and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me.
These are the empty gouges ... giving love is taking a chance.
Although these gouges are painful ...
they stay open ... reminding me of the love I have for these people too ...
and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting.
So now do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks.
He walked up to the old man ... reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart...
and ripped a piece out. 
He offered it to the old man with trembling hands.
The old man took his offering ... placed it in his heart...
and then took a piece from his old scarred heart ...
and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart.
It fit ... but not perfectly ... as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart...
not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever ...
since love from the old man's heart flowed into his. 

They embraced and walked away side by side.

Author unknown

May you have a blessed week

Hi All

It's been over a week since I last blogged. I haven't really felt like it to be honest. After the accident I thought I'd be back on my feet and back to normal in a couple of days, but it has taken over a week. Finally today I am beginning to feel positive and ready to start getting back to my normal tasks. All week I've been tired, teary eyed and VERY touchy. Maybe that's all normal, I wouldn't know, but I'm sick of it. My knee is still sore (the stitches came out today Yay!) and it does make walking a bit difficult and I only managed one church service yesterday, why are church pews soooooooooo uncomfortable ??!! Anyway it was back to work today and hopefully normal routine. Well that's enough whinging, on to some positives, after all every cloud has a silver lining.

To help keep myself sane this past week I made some more dresses for Dress a girl around the world, all up I now have 14 dresses made. Here's the dresses I've made in the past week or so

I also found some cute dresses in the op shop that I will also pass on.
These are the dresses I made before

I also did a bit of knitting on a pom pom baby blanket I am making.

Not sure how I'm going to tuck in the ends but I'm sure I'll think of something. I haven't felt much like crocheting, that maybe because I don't have a project on the go that I could just pick up and carry on with and my head has been filled with cotton wool so thinking wasn't my strong point this past week.

A x-ray of my head this week hehe (at least it's not empty)

I also wanted to share this amazing picture

It comes from a recent post on The Ark in Space. This website has the most amazing pictures and information on all sorts of animals. Why not head on over and see the rest of the Flamingo pictures and lots of other amazing pictures of God's creation.

Well I think it's time for a cuppa and the beddy-bys for me.
Hooroy for now
Sandra