Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood
Has your heart ever been broken by someone you loved or by circumstances beyond your control?
Granddaughter Megan Jewell's Drawing |
Can anything good ever come from a broken heart?
Has your heart ever been broken...by someone you loved...by circumstances beyond your control?
Daughter Faith Fu Ju's Drawing of Her Broken Heart. Faith said: "I have two hearts...one for China, where I was born, and one for my new country, America." |
Perhaps our broken heart is exactly the place where we find our destiny.
Here's a vintage Valentine postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle, the most prolific American commercial artist of postcards and greeting cards of her time.
I discovered Ellen's story at http://vintagefeedsacks.blogspot.com/2012/01/vintage-flowers.html#uds-search-results.
Ellen Clapsaddle was born in 1865 in New York. She attended art school on a scholarship and upon graduation supported herself and her mother giving art lessons as well as painting and portrait work that she was commissioned to do for wealthy clients.
The souvenir postcard industry was booming and Ellen and the Wolf brothers were making a lot of money which they invested in the German factories that produced the greeting cards and postcards she was creating. And then World War I came along in 1914. Most of the factories in Germany were leveled as a result of the war as well as all of Ellen's artwork and records. With the destruction of her entire life's work and penniless, Ellen traveled to Germany during this period to see if there was anything left of her work to save.
Pastor John Hagee, founder and Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas (a church with more than 20,000 active members, with a national radio and worldwide television audience) asked his own father (who was a pastor for over 40 years) why Deuteronomy 6:6 says the Word of God goes UPON the hearts rather than IN the hearts. His wise father said that preachers are like farmers who sow seeds upon the ground. They preach the Word of God and the "seeds" fall on people's hearts. Seeds of the Word of God go deep into broken hearts...but some people have hardened their hearts and do not receive God's Word and His promises.
My prayer for you on this Valentine's Day is that you will allow God to heal your broken heart, and bind up your wounds.
Daughter Sarah's Drawing |
· John 15:9 NIV
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
· John 13:35 NIV
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
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