Isaiah 42:1-9 Cracks

As I was working on the text for this week, I was stuck with how Professor Juliana Classes talked about our text for today.  She said this "For people today who all too often find themselves in a state of chaos and despair, this powerful depiction of the (suffering) servant in Isaiah 42 may speak in the following ways: First, in the midst of those times when chaos is rampant, when we are weighed down by the forces that seek to destroy life as we know it, we need to accept the fact that we often are no more than “bruised reeds” and “dimly burning wicks.” As the songwriter and theologian Leonard Cohen says so beautifully in his song, “Anthem”: “Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, but that is where the light gets in.” That is where the light comes in. God’s grace and power works exactly there where we are broken, where we are most fragile --"

What struck me from her statement was this image of a cracked clay pot and how the crack wasn't an imperfection but was where God's grace and power are at work.  I know for myself, I can get caught up in doing things "perfectly" that I forgot what the purpose behind what I am doing is.  Or I don't feel that if something is not done "perfectly" that God can't use what I am doing.  However, it is in the imperfect that God's love and power are at work?  Where is that for you today in your life?  Where are those cracks showing through in your life?  What does it look like knowing that God is in the cracks, using God's power and grace to be with you in this brokenness?