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With the debut just around the corner, I wanted to share with you just what brought me to this point in my journey to not only blog, but to create. It has been many years, well, a lifetime really, in the making, but over the past few years, it has become a greater and greater passion that God has placed on my heart. So, if you would allow me, I would like to share with you the story.

There was no sudden moment, no lightbulbs, no fireworks, no epiphany. I could not take you to a time and place or even a general date in time when God pricked my heart with the idea that others needed to hear my story. It actually just began with a whispered prayer, heavy fingers banging out letter after letter, and a hesitation before “publish” took my journey of caring for my son with ichthyosis to an entirely different and exposed level I will never forget or regret.

I wasn’t doing it alone. Suddenly my support system rose. Education of the condition and treatment spread quickly and soon, Raylen was so well known and well loved and cared for, very few in Elizabethton didn’t know him. I was able to tell my story, his story, our story, in confidence and even expose the hard times and the low thoughts. Blogging became something I was so very grateful for. I could get all my feelings out, share them, and then move forward. But there was a more important aspect.

Blogging gave me a platform I may not have had otherwise. To share my faith, the God who stands by us in the hardest times. To introduce Him as my Savior and to share with others our hope. As time progressed, I fell behind, busy with life and living and surviving. So many things happened in a very short amount of time. But God wasn’t done with my platform.

So, I began again, several times, trying out different methods, avenues, ideas. I was reaching for what direction God was trying to work, but nothing was quite clear yet. I would change the name, change the subject, change the font, the color, the pictures, but one things remained the same, my desire to share.

When God placed Grace Unshattered on my heart, it was after my brother, Daniel, preached a well known sermon on the passage about the potter in Jeremiah 18. I had heard it over and over, but there was a little word inside the verse I had never heard emphasized before. AGAIN.

Never having left the potter’s hands, the clay was marred…so, the potter made it AGAIN.

It was still the exact same piece of clay, but He made it over….AGAIN….

Another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

Wow!

You got my attention Lord!

Here I am. In Your hands. What do I do now? And Grace Unshattered was born. I was a broken mess, but God knew what He was doing. His grace was available 24/7, complete and perfect, exactly what I needed, when I needed it. So, I began to write again.

Then, God laid another thing on my heart. How hard is it to share your story?

How hard is it to know the right place, the right time, the right words? The courage, the faith, the grace, the strength, to take it all the way from being a story of your life, to a Hope in Jesus Christ and a peace that passes understanding! How many of us need a prompting? I know I do.

And then, looking at people from that perspective, God laid this burden on my heart. How many of you would more easily share your story if you had something to remind you of a specific turning point that God used to mold you into who you are today? Do you show off your wedding rings? Does anyone ever ask where you got those earrings or that new outfit, or those shoes! OH the shoes!!!

So, why not create a piece of art you can wear around your neck, close to your heart, that will serve not only as a reminder to you of God’s Unshattered Grace in your life, but to share it with others and then live it out every day!

This is my passion, my burden, my surrender. As each new piece is created, I will have a specific blog post dedicated to it for you to reference. Verses that can prompt you, inspire you, remind you of God’s incredible gift of trials and struggles as He molds you AGAIN, into ANOTHER vessel, fit for His use!

Each piece is made with you in mind and covered in prayer.

What a privilege it is and a gift it has been to face life’s trials together in the palm of our Creator’s hands! I hope you will continue to follow along this journey and share your story. Only God knows who it will touch and bless in ways nothing else can!

Pottery- A story of grace

Humbly and with much prayer,

RB with Grace Unshattered

Butterfly wing- A story of hope

Rainbow- A story of promise