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Student @ Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Does God look like me? Is God this broken?
<p>When you kneel beside your bed to speak to the Father,</p><p>I beg you to help me send my warmest regards.</p><p>And just in case He pauses at the mention of my name,</p><p>help me ask Him something I have been carrying quietly.</p><p>Ask Him if this boiling rage,</p><p>this bleeding heart,</p><p>these broken flaws of mine</p><p>still fit into His description of “Come, let us make man in our own image.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Because Scripture says God looked at all He made</p><p>and called it good.</p><p>And I wonder what He sees when He looks at me.</p><p>Does God look like this?</p><p>Does He ache without explanation?</p><p>Does He carry contradictions in His chest, hope and despair sharing the same breath?</p><p><br/></p><p>Are the houses God made filled with broken mirrors too?</p><p>Do reflections crack in heaven the way they do here?</p><p>Do they distort, fragment, refuse to give a full picture?</p><p><br/></p><p>I ask because I have tried to love well and still broken things.</p><p>I have prayed honestly and still felt unheard.</p><p>I have healed and relapsed, believed and doubted,</p><p>stood tall and collapsed quietly in the same season.</p><p><br/></p><p>If I was made in His image,</p><p>then somewhere in God must live the capacity to feel this deeply.</p><p>Somewhere in Him must exist a tenderness that bruises,</p><p>a strength that gets tired,</p><p>a love that bleeds without dying.</p><p><br/></p><p>So maybe brokenness is not the absence of God in me.</p><p>Maybe it is the part of Him I was never taught to recognize.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe God is not fragile </p><p>but He is familiar with fracture.</p><p>Maybe He is not distant </p><p>but acquainted with grief.</p><p><br/></p><p>And if that is true,</p><p>then maybe I am not a mistake He regrets.</p><p>Maybe I am proof that even what breaks</p><p>can still carry divinity.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I ask again, quietly, honestly:</p><p>Does God look like me?</p><p>Is God this broken —</p><p>and still good?</p>
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