<?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[Why "broken bole"...?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<a href="http://brokenbole.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/n689635827_117019_806.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-82" title="Broken Bole" src="http://brokenbole.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/n689635827_117019_806.jpg" alt="Broken Bole" width="550" height="433" /></a>

<strong>welcome to broken bole... </strong>

i have been searching for a name that described my life and my heart in returning to blogging.

"broken" has always been a word that described my life and what i felt. for so long, broken was only a negative word for me though. it is no longer...
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">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 to 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 and humbling to me.</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 putty that the artist can shape and change to fit the artists plan of what it should be.
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">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.</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).]]></html></oembed>