Maybe you walked into January with motivation, good intentions, and a mental list of things you were finally going to get right - and then life intervened. Plans fell apart. Schedules unraveled. The fresh start already feels a little upside down.

If that’s you, you’re not alone.
Scripture says, “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). Clay jars aren’t polished or permanent. They’re fragile. They chip. They crack. And yet God chooses them on purpose—so divine strength is what people notice, not our perfection.

In the new year, this is a lesson to be learned:
that a broken jar or frame doesn’t erase the beauty of what it was meant to hold. If anything, it tells a more honest story: that hope isn’t found in everything going according to plan, but in Christ meeting us when things fall apart.

We’ll keep reflecting on that as we continue our series called Fresh Start—not because new years makes life new, but because “His mercies are new every morning” (Lamentations 3:22–23).

Discover together that, with Christ, we can still have a good day—chipped and all.