The Broken Vase

A young man drove to his grandpa's house after the memorial service. He and his grandfather were very close and it was given to him to clean out the house his grandfather had lived in for 55 years. After spending several days packing up his belongings he was in the attic and found a box with the word "Potential" written on the top of it. When the young man opened the box he found 50 broken pieces of what looked like something of Chinese make. The young man donated most all of the boxes to charities, but kept the box that said potential and took it home with him. He decided to see if he could put the pieces back together and see what it was. So he researched the best adhesive to use and began to put the pieces back together one by one. It took the young man several weeks to figure out which pieces went together and how they went together but he finally finished and when he did, what he had, was one of the most beautiful vases the young man had ever seen. The pieces had fit back together so well that all that showed was a small thin line where the pieces went together, but the way they fit, the design actually made with vase look really cool. The young man displayed his vase right on his table where all could see it and everyone told him how beautiful the vase was and he always had beautiful freshly cut flowers in the vase. He had never understood why his grandfather had put those pieces in that box and wrote that word "Potential", but now as he looked at his beautiful vase, and remembered all the compliments he had received on it, he knew what his grandfather knew about those pieces of broken vase. If someone just took the time to research what would work best to put them back together, and then spent the hours carefully working the pieces back into their rightful place, the vase could be beautiful and useful again.

The young man began to think about how people are much the same. So many of us have so much potential, but are often broken by life's circumstances. All we need is someone to invest the time to figure out what it is that would help put us back together and we would become beautiful productive people again. So what about you, do you know any broken people in your life, do you know people who could use your time and investment, do you know people who have potential? If so, would you be willing to "Make the Change" in their life? I hope so, I hope that all who read this story can find a way to see the beauty in those who have been broken and hurt by this world and can learn how to invest your time, energy and efforts in putting them back together and becoming the change in their life's!!!