More Beautiful for Being Broken: The Flask

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More beautiful for being broken: the flask

The alabaster flask was more beautiful for being broken
releasing a pervading fragrance to anoint you –
the only thing you wore on the cross;
Well after you were scourged and naked,
there lingered that scent of love
lavished by a broken woman
from a broken vessel.

Is this true of me – beautiful for being broken?
Releasing a fragrance to bless –
the only thing I wear as I carry you on the cross;
Well after I am wounded and naked
there lingers that scent of love
lavished by brokenness on brokenness.

Let me embrace Your frailty;
You who broke bread to let me taste You
To help me remember You
To reveal to me the cost of love;
You would not merely view from a distance
But broke in to let me out.

More beautiful for being broken:
“She has done something beautiful for me. 
 She did what she could.
 She poured perfume on my body
 So wherever the good news goes,
 what she has done will be told.” #

# Mark 14:6-9
Image from “pinsoflight.net”; note “The Broken Jar“.