TLC

There’s a great song by the Talley Trio called The Broken Ones. (If you’re not familiar with the Talleys, or Southern Gospel music in general, well, you’re missing out …) The song speaks of a girl named Maggie who finds a “raggedy Raggedy Ann,” brings it home and fixes it up. Twenty years later she’s doing the same for battered women in a shelter.

I love the chorus: She loves the broken ones / The ones that need a little patching up / She sees the diamond in the rough / And makes it shine like new / It really doesn’t take that much / A willing heart and a tender touch / If everybody loved like she does / There’d be a lot less broken ones

I see broken people every day and I see ministries like Living Hope reaching out with God’s love to heal those people. It’s not because anyone is trying to earn their way into God’s Kingdom. (That would be impossible.) It’s simply out of gratitude for what God has already done. He loved a broken world so much that He sent His only Son to die as the perfect sacrifice to fix it. Anyone who has personally received that love should be compelled to pass it on. 1 John 4:11 says, “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

The Talleys song says the same: If you call her an angel / She’ll be quick to say to you / She’s just doing what the One who died for her would do

He loves the broken ones / The ones that need a little patching up / He sees the diamond in the rough / And makes it shine like new / It really doesn’t take that much / A willing heart and a tender touch / If everybody loved like He does / There’d be a lot less broken ones