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    Finding God in the Broken Places
    Finding God in the Broken Places
    Finding God in the Broken Places
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    Finding God in the Broken Places

    By Patsy Clairmont

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    About this ebook

    Women of Faith, renowned for their unique combination of personality and truth, offer fresh new messages in four new topical study guides in the popular Women of Faith Study Guide Series.

    Each study guide, teeming with insights and quotes from the conference

    • Twelve weeks of Bible study for individuals or groups
    • New, special edition installment in this best-selling series
    • Filled with quotes from the Women of Faith speakers
    • Leader's Guide included

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateOct 26, 2008
    ISBN9781418555443
    Finding God in the Broken Places
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    Patsy Clairmont

    Patsy Clairmont is a popular speaker, a coauthor of various Women of Faith devotionals, and the author of such best-selling books as "God Uses Cracked Pots" and "Sportin' a 'Tude." She and her husband live in Brighton, Michigan.

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      Finding God in the Broken Places - Patsy Clairmont

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      Copyright © 2007 by Patsy Clairmont

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      Unless otherwise specified, all Scripture references are taken from The New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      ISBN-10: 1-4185-0712-1

      ISBN-13: 978-1-4185-0712-1

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      Contents

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      Introduction: What a Mystery!

      Life Can Be Both Fun and Fractured

      1. Filling in the Fissures

      2. Blooming and Bearing Fruit

      in a Cracked-Pot World

      3. Crushed for Fragrance, Broken for Beauty

      4. Fizzling, Not Fizzled

      5. A Compass for a Crooked Road

      6. Cracked, Cracking Up, or Crack-Jaw?

      7. Curbing before Crumbling

      8. Mending the Fractured Relationship

      9. Spackle for the Shattered Self

      10. Taking a Break before You Break

      11. Seeing Beyond the Brokenness

      12. Patience and Perseverance

      as the Glue Sets and the Design Takes Shape

      Facilitator’s Guide

      About the Author

      Introduction:

      What a Mystery!

      Life Can Be Both Fun and Fractured

      I have spent a good portion of my life—actually, most of my life—seeking a sense of self. I suspect it takes at least half a century to get to that point where a person can say, "I’m starting to know who I am. I also suspect that a huge part of the process is discovering that lots of things in our lives are broken and in need of repair. We all experience fissures of the heart—fractured relationships, weakening moral fiber, and a certain amount of religious disillusionment. At times I have wondered if there isn’t a glue-like substance meant to fill in the fractures—a brain gunk or a spiritual spackle." And, at times, I’ve wondered if that spackle comes in vats!

      Actually, that’s where our Redeemer comes in. We need someone who can fix our broken places, spackle our perspective, and give us a reason to laugh. God sent Jesus as a Redeemer to do just that—to redeem the shards of our lives and create a stained-glass perspective. When we realize we’re broken and acknowledge Jesus as our Redeemer, then the cruising blows of life do not destroy us. Instead, we see through our repaired eyes the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living (Psalm 27:13). Then we live with hope, we dance more often, we laugh more deeply, and we are not surprised by the fact that life is all cracked up. In the end, the discovery of self isn’t nearly as much about who we are as about Whose we are.

      I’ve also learned that along the way, it’s good to have friends to talk to, laugh with, and share life with. That’s where this book comes in.

      The chapters that follow have questions aimed at greater reflection and small group discussion. I’m all for you calling a couple of girlfriends—or perhaps women you’d like to become your girlfriends—and saying, Hey, let’s take on the challenge together of smoothing some of our frayed nerves and maybe finding a little focus and strength. There’s comfort in numbers—as long as they are numbers of friends and not numbers of problems!

      If you find yourself elected leader of the group—take heart! A Facilitator’s Guide is at the back of this book. If you are doing this study on your own, you may want to spend some extra time with these questions as well.

      You are likely to discover as you discuss some of these issues that the Redeemer very subtly begins to repair some of the broken stuff in your life. Some areas that you thought were damaged goods just may become prized possessions. Broken doesn’t automatically mean unusable. Brokenness can be the vibrancy that makes us more valuable!

      I hope you’ll laugh along the way . . . and in the end, become more tenderly heartened that life can be both fun and fulfilling, even if fractured.

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      Filling in the Fissures

      No woman is complete in herself. Every woman faces two challenges—first, to embrace her own abilities and uniqueness, and second, to appreciate other individuals God

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