{"id":2951,"date":"2012-02-11T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.convergingzone.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2012-02-11T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T18:27:53","slug":"from-messed-to-blessed-by-robert-ricciardelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/robertricciardelli\/ricciardelli\/from-messed-to-blessed-by-robert-ricciardelli\/","title":{"rendered":"From Messed to Blessed by Robert Ricciardelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong>We all make messes, and we should expect messes to happen sometimes. God is great at exposing messes and then cleaning them up for His glory. Messed up perceptions, ideologies, and happenings, all must bow to Love, bow to the God of Love. God can take chaos and disorder and bring them into divine alignment for His will and purposes. Through Him, all messes become opportunities for grace, and His presence filled love. His ways are beyond what humanity can see on a clear day, let alone the darkest of days. He takes your mess and turns it into His message. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking back on your life can you look at the times God has exposed messes and then brought amazing light to them? <\/p>\n<p>Have you seen the power of His love bring together what was once dark and divided? <\/p>\n<p>What does \u201cHis ways are beyond our ways\u201d mean to you when you come upon messed up situations in life?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all make messes, and we should expect messes to happen sometimes. God is great at exposing messes and then cleaning them up for His glory. 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