Rita Bass Coors paid $7,000 for a porcelain mask hand-painted by John Denver. It had been purchased at the 1997 Charity Celebrity Ball for Hospice of Metropolitan Denver. As the auctioneer handed it to her, it slipped through her fingers and shattered on the floor. The new owner of an expensive pile of broken pieces decided to keep them anyway. Rather than attempt to fix the mask, she placed the pieces in a montage of John Denver photographs. Preachers of the gospel must never forget that God is on a mission to find and pick up the shattered, jagged lives of broken people and transform them into something beautiful. The call to preach is God's invitation to be a part of that process. Jesus modeled the relentless task of preaching to broken people throughout his ministry, citing the prophet Isaiah as his God-ordained, personal mission statement: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, ...