Yesterday I had a beautiful friend round for lunch. I have only known her since we moved here but we are already close pals. A while ago she and her husband shared that they had a real desire to be parents but for all sorts of reasons, this had not happened for them yet. Having been in the position where I was told I could not have children, I always feel very deeply for others in this situation. I took it upon myself to pray for them regularly.

In our conversation yesterday I suddenly got a word in my head. It was the word MOSAIC. I started to speak out what I felt God was saying to us. As you will know, a mosaic is made up of lots of small pieces to create a large picture. I started to get very excited. The very BEST mosaics are made from broken tiles not just small ones. The picture created from broken pieces is much more intricate than one made of small square bland tiles. In order to have broken pieces, something needs to no-longer be whole…

Basically I had a vision of this girl’s family as a mosaic of different colours, from different nations. Although I feel they will be biological parents too, I sense that God has a redeeming work for them to do in rescuing children from dangerous and unpleasant backgrounds.

We prayed into this and she confirmed that it was something God had already spoken to them before. Hooray!

The whole picture of the mosaic got me thinking about us as people. Sometimes things are going along smoothly. It is easy to trust in God because actually things are fine. When something goes wrong and things start to break up we can feel as though God must be out of control. We feel insecure and ask ‘Where are you? What are you doing?’

Perhaps what He is doing is creating an intricate and wonderful mosaic of all the broken pieces of life to make a unique masterpiece. Each situation is re-used for His glory and to tell His story.

May you and I be mosaics for Him today.