Bead Monkey is an amazing little shop in Mineola. It's tucked quietly away behind another store on Johnson Street. Sherry takes old, discarded jewelry and turns it into wonderful new pieces with beads and baubles and bling. You can go in and pick... and match... and create wonderful "one of a kind" pieces. Whenever I go in, I spend a lot of time looking at the intricacies of the tiny beads and exploring all the colorful choices and trying to imagine what the perfect combination should be.
And I think... God must surely enjoy taking the broken pieces of our lives and arranging them into His own masterful art of mankind. From the pages of the Old Testament to the pages o the New Testament, Scripture records over and over what God has done in the hearts and lives and affairs of man. Life moves in cycles. It has ups and downs; it arranges itself into peaks and valleys. Some days we're on top; other days we're way at the bottom.
The point is... that normal living, with all of its stress, problems, and crazy pace ages us and the only way we can survive it is to practice the peace of God and let Him put us back together in a brand new way every morning.
Just as Sherry, in her tiny shop in Mineola, Texas, turns old into new, God turns evil into good, mistakes into miracles, and messy into tidy... with Grace and with a brand new chance, every day, to get it right.
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. (Romans 8:28)
If you are in Mineola, stop in at Bead Monkey. You can find her on facebook at: Tx. Bead Monkey.
Blessings,
Charlene
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)
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