Putting Broken Pieces Back Together

Tonight with Chris and Alex being away, Katy Beth and I decided to have a movie night. We were both excited about our time together, " just us girls". We went to Red Box and looked through all the movies. I wanted a girlie movie for girls night and Katy Beth really wanted to see Hugo because she had read the book and we hadn't seen it in the theater. Hugo is not the typical kind of book or movie genre I enjoy but it is one that Katy Beth truly loves so of course we got the movie. It is mother/daughter night after all. I must say it is quite an odd movie but one that has some interesting parts to it that I rather enjoyed. I know it was mostly the great company but there really was one part of the movie that really caught my attention, so much so that I had to rewind it twice because I wanted to capture the words. Hugo and the young girl were up in the clock tower where he lives and they were discussing the importance of machines and how they work ( if you haven't seen the movie it has a lot to do with machines, engineering, and how things work) so anyway, the two are discussing the importance of machines and Hugo very clearly and deliberately says, " Well, everything has a purpose. Even machines have a purpose, trains take you places, clocks tell you what time it is.They do what they are meant to do. Maybe that is why broken machines make me so sad. They can't do what they are meant to do. Maybe it is the same with people. When you lose your purpose it is like you are broken. " And the little girl says," Like George, he has lost his purpose." These two kids got it. They saw that the girl's godfather had lost his purpose in life. He was broken. I had to pause for quite some time and really think about this. We all have a purpose here on Earth. One that I believe God has intended specifically for each of us. How many times do we let the world and circumstances in the world consume us where we can't focus on our true purpose for being here? How many times are we so caught up in our own worlds that we can't see the hurt and lose of purpose someone else is feeling? You never know what someone is going through. Sometimes we don't know because often the outside looks okay but it is the inside that is really broken. We have to be mindful of our purpose so we can always be ready to share that purpose with someone who needs to know, someone who is broken and needs to be put back together. Just like a broken machine, a broken person just needs one person to help them put the pieces back together so they can become new and do what they were meant to do.