We've all heard the nursery rhyme:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
And all the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again...
But what if it ended a little differently? Maybe with a happier ending...
Humpty Dumpty did sit on a wall...and Humpty did have a great fall...a very painful and embarrassing fall that nearly ruined everything...
BUT...
....A caring friend and colleague used Super Glue and tape to hold the pieces of Humpty Dumpty together...
....A CPE supervisor and a cohort of fellow chaplains helped heal Humpty Dumpty so you almost couldn't tell she had a fall...and so she was willing to sort of trust the King again.
....An amazing community of faith helped her hear and respond when the King asked Humpty to sit on the wall again.
....A dedicated and gifted pastor/colleague/friend worked with Humpty so she had the courage and the strength to climb up the wall and sit on it again.
...Her family and friends and colleagues cheered her on and encouraged her as she climbed and sat on the wall once again...
And Humpty was thankful for it all...and thankful to be serving the King once again...
...But then she started experiencing challenges.
...She felt afraid...what if she fell again?
...She felt alone...it was lonely sitting up on the wall.
...She felt worried. What if she had made a huge mistake?
Humpty...may have whined and complained and when she slipped a few times, gotten frustrated that no one seemed like they were going to catch her if she fell again. All her fellow wall-sitters seemed to be looking elsewhere. She loved the wall, but keeping the balance was SO VERY HARD and she just didn't know how to do it.
So Humpty looked around to see what everyone else was looking at, and saw that everyone was looking at the King.
So Humpty, desperate for help by now, cried out to the King...and found that when she was looking at the King, she didn't feel as afraid, or as alone, or as worried...and she felt stronger and more confident about sitting on the wall.
And in the hardest moments, she felt the King holding her up...and it was then that she realized what she had known all along...
That in the falling...and the shattering...and the healing...and the climbing...and the struggling...that the King was working in and through everyone, and as long as Humpty kept her eyes and her focus on the King and on serving him, that he wouldn't let her fall again.
And so Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall...and she didn't fall, because she had learned to rely upon the King.
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