The Broken Clock

    Bang! Our front door slammed shut as my brother and I raced inside. Crash! We both skidded to a stop and spun around, wondering what had broken. “Ashley, look!” My brother exclaimed, pointing to the clock that usually hung by the door. The clock lay on the floor, the glass front of it broken off. “Oh no… What have we done?” I said slowly, picking up the glass pieces on the floor. That clock had always been unsteady on the wall, but now we knew how unsteady it really had been. “What’s mom gonna say?” Aidan said softly.

    We didn’t have to wait long to find out. Mom was not pleased with us for slamming the door, resulting in the clock breaking. Although, the clock still worked, it was just the glass front of it that had broken off. My brother and I were both in charge of buying a new clock, though.

    A few days later, after we had replaced the batteries in the broken clock and swept up the millions of tiny glass pieces, the clock now hung back up on the wall where it was before. The only difference was that there was no glass that covered the front of the clock now. Later that evening, as I was sitting on the couch, I noticed something different about the clock. Before, when there was glass covering it, the light would always glare and make it hard to read the time. But now, since the glass was gone, there was no weird glare on it, and we could read the time even easier than before!

    That made me think. Sometimes bad things happen in our lives, and make us wonder why it happened and how we can ever get out of the mess. Just like the clock, when it had broken, my brother and I wondered how much trouble we were in, and how we would ever get out of it.

    But sometimes, bad things happen for our own good. When the clock broke, at first it seemed like an awful mess and we didn’t know what to do. But, we then realized that we were better off without the glass on it!

    God knows what’s best in our lives, and He makes everything work out in the end. He knows just what to do when we’re having trials or hardships, and He’ll make everything just right. Sometimes, He makes these things happen to test us, and to make our lives better. He knows what’s best for us!



~Ashley Angeles