God Uses Broken Things

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;

for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;

we must die to one life before we can enter another.

~ Anatole France

Change often comes out of periods of brokenness. 
But God uses broken things:

broken soil to produce a crop,
broken clouds to give rain,

broken grain to give bread,
and broken bread to give strength.

(c) Maria Egilsson ~ Songs of the Beloved