{"id":53,"date":"2025-08-30T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:29:50","slug":"cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Broken to Cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cracked-1-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cracked-1-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cracked-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cracked-1-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cracked-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does it mean to be the sort of cracked that lets the light in?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CrackedMusic.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone once said about the poet William Blake, \u201cI believe that man is cracked\u201d and the friend responded, \u201cYes, but he is the sort of cracked that lets the light in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The apostle Paul (2 Corinthians 4:7-9) tells us that the goal of life is not to become a perfect museum piece, with no blemishes or rough edges \u2013 life is less about a nice exterior and more about caring inside the priceless treasure of God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, trust that even your faults have a purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More on the topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The cracks in our lives and <a href=\"https:\/\/e360bible.org\/blog\/the-meaning-of-brokenness-truth-about-being-broken-in-the-sight-of-god\/\">the beauty of confession<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The history of Paul\u2019s analogy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalarchaeology.org\/daily\/biblical-artifacts\/artifacts-and-the-bible\/treasures-in-clay-jars\/\">treasure in clay jars<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brene Brown\u2019s call to be vulnerable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu\/daring-be-vulnerable-brene-brown\">to dare greatly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A prayer for <a href=\"https:\/\/robinmarie.org\/i-am-but-a-broken-clay-pot\/\">cracked clay pots<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be the sort of cracked that lets the light in? Someone once said about the poet William Blake, \u201cI believe that man is cracked\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}