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God can mend your broken heart, but you must give him all the pieces

Oh, how picturesque! Here sits our victim, suffering the pain of a broken heart. God is offering to help repair her faith in love and in life. But she resists giving herself completely to Him. She holds on to part of her heart, jealously perhaps. Or maybe she doesn’t want to tell Him all her secrets because she is ashamed. But God is loving and accepting of our faults. Once she understands this wholeness of God, she can give the wholeness of herself over to Him.

Now that’s how it reads to me. It’s very clear. But it’s such a short quote; can it possibly mean all that to others as well?

I had a girlfriend in school who spoke like this. She would say the cutest things, like “all the pieces of a broken heart.” This sign sort of reminds me of her. It’s a very southern sounding expression, one that manifests the intangible “broken heart” and talks of its pieces. It’s easy to imagine those shards of heart fragments when you hear this quote. And that, essentially, is the source of its charm.

Not to mention that it’s a great piece of Godvertising: it draws in anyone who’s ever had a broken heart (all of us); it reminds us of the simplicity of giving ourselves to God and the enormous reward He will offer in return. The sign is soothing by itself, and it beckons us inside for more of that good old southern charm and warm love of God.