The One With The Brokenness

"I am a sinner
If its not one thing, its another
Caught up in words, tangled in lies
But You are a Savior

And you take brokenness aside
And make it beautiful."

-All Sons and Daughters

As humans, it is our instinct to mend that which is broken. If it is broken, it must be fixed. If it is sick, it must be healed. In our endless pursuit of perfection, we often overlook the beauty of the broken. It is among the broken things that we find our peace, our hope. Those that have survived. Those that have been battered, wasted, starved. Our masks of perfection can not let in God's glorious light. These masks are full of self. Like Adam and Eve's covering, they are full of excuses, full of self-preservation, full of the Serpent's lie of independence. When we expose our broken pieces, our cracks, our imperfections, we allow the mask to come down and the light to shine through.

The fixing is not to us, only the loving. Like in the creation story, God says, "I will take the emptiness and fill it up. Out of the darkness, I'm going to make light. And out of the nothing, I'm going to make everything."* I'm not here to fix the broken, but to embrace it, to love it. And in embracing the brokenness in others, I can begin to accept the brokenness within myself. I'm not here to right the wrongs, but to love. Love the broken. Love the chaos. Love the noise. Love the wounds. 

I sit with my new favorite mug, the broken one, and I let the Spirit of Light take away my need to control, to fix. A breeze, a release, a smile. 

*Taken from the Jesus Storybook Bible