<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[broken bole]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://brokenbole.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://brokenbole.com/author/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[broken bole is born...]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-82" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;" title="Broken Bole" src="http://brokenbole.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/n689635827_117019_806-300x236.jpg" alt="Broken Bole" width="300" height="236" />

i have been searching for a name that described my life and my heart - in returning to blogging.

<strong>&gt;&gt;&gt; so i landed with "broken bole"</strong> &lt;&lt;&lt;

"broken" has always been a word that has described my life and what i felt. for so long, broken was only a negative word for me though. but it's so much different now...
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><em>broken: is so much more about a life of understanding where i have come from and why i have a future. i am a broken man who has been given immense grace by God. My brokenness is not irreparable, i know who i am in Christ - but also know where i have come and how much i've messed up too. brokenness is so hopeful, yet so humbling as well.</em></span></p>

"bole" has many meanings, but the one i latched onto was it means "clay". clay can come in all forms - from a hard finished product (that is breakable) to a moldable slab of <a class="zem_slink" title="Putty" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putty">putty</a> that the artist can shape and change to fit the artists plan of what it should be.
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><em>bole: yeah, i could have just said clay or putty and not try to be catchy by using "broken bole"... but i liked how it sounded and with it meaning clay, i was hooked! i am using it in the way of a moldable piece of clay/putty. i continue to hope that out of my brokenness, that God will continue to shape me and mold me.</em></span></p>

so this is it, from "cracked round peg" (a blog about not fitting in and wanting to be different and express frustrations with life and the local church as i saw it) to "broken bole" (hopefully a blog that is more hopeful, but is so aware of the grace and love i have received... undeserved).
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