I recently finished reading Stained Glass Hearts: Seeing Life from a Broken Perspective by Patsy Clairmont. Everyone, myself included, has experienced the searing pain of rejection and heartbreak. Many of us feel that our hearts are shattered in a million tiny pieces that, like Humpty Dumpty, can never be pieced together again. But for those of us that feel this way, there is a solution. God is the only person that can take a heart that is shattered in millions of pieces, with some that seem permanently lost, and piece them back together like a stained glass portrait of his love for us.
As Patsy Clairmont points out in this book, stained glass is just small smatterings of broken glass that are put together to form a beautiful picture of wholeness. Just as the person that makes a stained glass picture takes time to choose the perfect place for the piece of glass that the rest of the world would call broken, God takes the little pieces of our broken hearts others would call irreparable and puts them back together better than they were before they were broken.
I loved this book. The symbolism that Patsy Clairmont uses between the beauty of stained glass reflecting the beauty of our broken hearts is amazing. I was captivated by her stories of family heartbreak and struggles with agoraphobia. She also intertwines beautiful psalms and other verses of scripture that act as a soothing balm to a weary heart. She also makes suggestions for art, music, and poetry that can help sand off the rough edges of a shattered heart. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that needs to know that God can repair a broken heart with even the smallest pieces.
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