The Cracks Are Where The Light Shines Through

By Ldsapologetics
I was reading The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne and he goes on about how the cracks are where the lights shines through meaning that sometimes our faults or cracks become the fissure where the inspiration and light of The Lord come shining through. That our wounds are where that Love of God finds it's way into our system as a way of blessing rather than source of infection as so many proclaim.
Aristotle said "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
That madness is exactly the source of inspiration to motivate some one like Tesla into trying things no one had ever thought of before.  It's what allowed Da Vinci to invent things hundreds of years ahead of his time.
Sometimes our flaws can be strengths, like my tendency towards obsession can have the same effect as good old fashioned discipline when I use it with restraint.
Mother Teressa collected shoes for the less fortunate, the orphan and lepers amongst others yet she always chose the most beat up shoes for herself so everyone else could have a better selection.  She did this to the point that her feet became deformed and misshapen.
While to some this may seem gross, to me I'd say it's beautiful.
Mother Teressa had a few cracks and maybe a screw or two loose but how many people were blessed as a result?  How much light enlightened those around her?
And does Jesus seem a little of kilter to you?
He said the last shall be the first and the first shall be the last, He told His disciples to find the temple tax money in the mouth of a fish, He came back from the dead and the first thing He said to His disciples was "Have you anything to eat?"
He rises from the dead, conquers death and the first thing He wants to say when He comes back is "Where's the food?  Let's eat!"
He also describes a mode of living where all the money of the community is pooled and spread amongst the members according to need.  The Law Of Consecration in other words.
This is the opposite of capitalism, it is opposed to the ways of the world, it is upside down yet it is what Jesus instructs us to do.  It is not Jesus who is upside down in His thinking, it is us who are upside down in relation to the ways of The Lord.
That is the madness that needs to work it's way into our lives and we must do better to allow it free entry.
So it is the ways of the world, the ways of men that are backward compared to the ways of The Lord.  So what we often consider to be faults might actually be there for a reason.  For example, imagine a circle with a wedge missing, like pacman.
Pacman goes along singing a joyful song about how he's going to find his missing piece, he stops and talks to many people as he searches for this missing piece.  Then he finally finds it and instead of moving slowly he rolls fast-too fast!  And he can't sing because he no longer has a mouth, he no longer talks to people or visits with them because of his missing piece.
So missing the joys of life he had when his piece was missing he spits it out and begins to sing again as he slowly rolls along his way.
The point is that maybe those cracks, those missing pieces of yours are absent for good cause.  Maybe being complete and perfect isn't as helpful or healthy as one may think.