Today I will be leading a session on brokenness with the girls I work with. I thought I would share it with you too.
Show my broken mug with the handle missing. Ask if the mug is still usable. We could glue the handle back on and use it, but it might break again. Would you give it to a guest to use? What could you use it for? Then take a hammer and pretend to break it. Now what can we use it for? It is just a bunch of broken pieces. We have to be careful with the pieces because they could cut us. We usually just throw the pieces away.
We are all broken. Some of us have just have one big break in our life, like the handle of the mug. We may still be usable like we are or easy to fix. But there will always be a crack in us that is weaker because of the break.
Brokenness usually comes from other people. Tear up a paper doll cut out of a magazine. Not many mugs just break by itself, but usually someone does something that causes the mug to break. Maybe the person doesn't mean to hurt the mug but they are not careful with it and it breaks. Or maybe someone wants to destroy the mug so they take a hammer to it to break it.
Once we are broken it is not easy to fix us. Tear up another paper doll. It isn't like we can go to a doctor and he can glue all our parts back together. It takes a long time. Love is the glue that holds us together.
We will not be the same as we were before. Start gluing the pieces of the paper doll to a coloring page of a fish. But we will be beautiful! We will be different. When we were like the mug, before we were broken, we probably only thought we would be a mug and never imagined being something that is beautiful that people admire.
Brokenness does not need fixing. Brokenness changes us. It is the beginning of something new. Show the finished product of the fish mosaic made from broken dolls.
Show picture of Laxmi - Acid attack survivor
When Laxmi was 15 when a man who wanted to marry her but she refused, threw acid on her. He was sentenced 4 years later to 10 years in prison. For many years Laxmi just hid out at home, depressed and ashamed of her looks. Her friends stopped coming by. Relatives even avoided her. But finally she decided to start really living again. She took tailoring courses and opened a shop up. And now she wants to go on Indian Idol and sing. She has also helped pass a ban on the selling of acid and she speaks up about the horror that happens from the attacks.
Show picture of Shweta - Red-light district, abuse survivor
Shweta was raised in a brothel as her mother is a prostitute. She was also abused by customers and taunted at school. A local NGO came into the red-light district to offer a way out for the children. The children were given the opportunity to be housed and schooled. Shweta got a good education and decided to dedicate her life to helping make change. She received a scholarship to study in America and will come back to help the ladies in the red-light area find new opportunities of employment and give counseling to them.
I couldn't get the pictures to go where they were suppose to go. Oh well.
Show my broken mug with the handle missing. Ask if the mug is still usable. We could glue the handle back on and use it, but it might break again. Would you give it to a guest to use? What could you use it for? Then take a hammer and pretend to break it. Now what can we use it for? It is just a bunch of broken pieces. We have to be careful with the pieces because they could cut us. We usually just throw the pieces away.
We are all broken. Some of us have just have one big break in our life, like the handle of the mug. We may still be usable like we are or easy to fix. But there will always be a crack in us that is weaker because of the break.
Brokenness usually comes from other people. Tear up a paper doll cut out of a magazine. Not many mugs just break by itself, but usually someone does something that causes the mug to break. Maybe the person doesn't mean to hurt the mug but they are not careful with it and it breaks. Or maybe someone wants to destroy the mug so they take a hammer to it to break it.
Once we are broken it is not easy to fix us. Tear up another paper doll. It isn't like we can go to a doctor and he can glue all our parts back together. It takes a long time. Love is the glue that holds us together.
We will not be the same as we were before. Start gluing the pieces of the paper doll to a coloring page of a fish. But we will be beautiful! We will be different. When we were like the mug, before we were broken, we probably only thought we would be a mug and never imagined being something that is beautiful that people admire. Brokenness does not need fixing. Brokenness changes us. It is the beginning of something new. Show the finished product of the fish mosaic made from broken dolls.
When Laxmi was 15 when a man who wanted to marry her but she refused, threw acid on her. He was sentenced 4 years later to 10 years in prison. For many years Laxmi just hid out at home, depressed and ashamed of her looks. Her friends stopped coming by. Relatives even avoided her. But finally she decided to start really living again. She took tailoring courses and opened a shop up. And now she wants to go on Indian Idol and sing. She has also helped pass a ban on the selling of acid and she speaks up about the horror that happens from the attacks.
Show picture of Shweta - Red-light district, abuse survivor
Shweta was raised in a brothel as her mother is a prostitute. She was also abused by customers and taunted at school. A local NGO came into the red-light district to offer a way out for the children. The children were given the opportunity to be housed and schooled. Shweta got a good education and decided to dedicate her life to helping make change. She received a scholarship to study in America and will come back to help the ladies in the red-light area find new opportunities of employment and give counseling to them.
I couldn't get the pictures to go where they were suppose to go. Oh well.
1 comment:
Very good,Leslie
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