Lots of "running around" filled my morning today, although my legs didn't do any work.  I chose to drive the car as I went from place to place, even though our community is small and I normally could walk the route easily.  The problem has been dealing with smokey air blown in from the fires in Saskatchewan, and possibly Montana and Washington, too.  It gets into the jet stream and makes its way to invade our space, which is not a good thing for someone like me who deals with asthma.

Heading home after the last stop there was a peppy song playing on the radio.  The title was "Something Beautiful", sung by Steven Curtis Chapman.  As I listened I found myself remembering the "Broken" message God gave me earlier this week.

Here are the lyrics and options to play a sample or purchase:
                

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  Something Beautiful

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  from the album The Glorious Unfolding
  

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  I see you sitting over there with your head in your hands
  And the mess life's made of your best laid plans
  You really want to shake your fist
  But you don't know who to blame
  Well, you can blame yourself or the man upstairs
  Or the guy on the screen who says he cares
  But all the shame and the blame won't change a thing
  What's done is done
  But grace has just begun
  
  And God says
  I'm gonna turn it into something different
  I'm gonna turn it into something good
  I'm gonna take all the broken pieces
  And make something beautiful like only I could
  So put it all in the hands of the Father
  Give it up, give it all over to
  The only One who can turn it into
  Something beautiful
  Something really beautiful
  
  We know the world got broke when it took the fall
  And here we are living in the middle of it all
  Longing, waiting for the day when everything's restored
  But the best of the beauty that we get to SEE
  While we're living down here in this “yet to be”
  Is to watch God take the most broken things
  And to hear Him say
  “When I get through, you're gonna be amazed”
  
  ‘Cause I'm gonna turn it into something different
  I'm gonna turn it into something good
  I'm gonna take all the broken pieces
  And make something beautiful like only I could
  So put it all in the hands of the Father
  Give it up, give it all over to
  The only One who can turn it into
  
  Something beautiful
  Something beautiful
  Something beautiful
  Put all the pieces in His hands
  And watch Him turn it into something beautiful
  
  God's gonna turn it into something different
  He's gonna turn it into something good
  He's gonna take all the broken pieces
  And make something beautiful like only He could
  So put it all in the hands of the Father
  Give it up, give it all over to
  The only One who can turn it into
  Something beautiful
  Something really beautiful
  Something beautiful
  Something really beautiful