Who doesn't know what it's like to smile thinly and say you're fine when you're not, when you're almost faint with pain? There isn't one of us not bearing the wounds from our own bloody battles...

What in God's holy name do you do when it feels like you're broken and cut up, and love has failed, and you've failed, and you feel like Somebody's love has failed you?...

Not one thing in your life is more important than figuring out how to live in the face of unspoken pain...

I'm not enough for any of this. Not enough for anything I'm doing, for anything I am facing, for anyone I am facing. Not enough for my life... 

How in the holy name of God do you live with your one broken heart?

This is the deal we all get: guaranteed suffering. We all get it. It is coming, unstoppable, like time. There are graves coming, there is dark coming, there is heartbreak coming. We are not in control, and we never were...

How do you live with your one broken heart?

How does the interior of your soul live with broken things, through broken things?

Isn't the essence of the Christian life to answer that one, nail-sharp question: God, why in this busted-up world have You abandoned me?

There is the truth: Blessed - lucky - are those who cry. Blessed are those who are sad, who mourn, who feel the loss of what they love - because they will be held by the One who loves them. There is a strange and aching happiness only the hurting know - for they shall be held...

Jesus, with His pierced side, is always on the side of the broken. Jesus always moves into places moved with grief. Jesus always seeks out where the suffering is, and that's where Jesus stays. The wound in His side proves that Jesus is always on the side of the suffering, the wounded, the busted, the broken...

There's brokenness that's not about blame. There's brokenness that makes a canvas for God's light. There's brokenness that makes windows straight into souls. Brokenness happens in a soul so the power of God can happen in a soul...

Is there a grace that can bury the fear that your faith isn't big enough and your faults are too many?... A grace that embraces you before you prove anything - and after you've done everything wrong? A grace that holds you when everything is breaking down and falling apart - and whispers that everything is somehow breaking free and falling together...

Heart are broken in ten thousand ways, for this is a heart-breaking world; and Christ is good at healing all manner of heart-breaks... the same hand that unwraps the firmaments of winging stars wraps liniments around the wounded heart; the One whose breath births galaxies into being births healing into the heart of the broken...

How do you live with your one broken heart? All I can think is - only the wounds of God can heal our wounds... Suffering is healed by suffering, wounds are healed by wounds... bad brokenness is healed by His good brokenness. Bad brokenness is broken by good brokenness...

Maybe you can live a full and beautiful life in spite of the great and terrible moments that will happen right iside of you. Actually - maybe you get to become more abundant because of those moments. Maybe - I don't know how, but somehow? - maybe our hearts are made to be broken. Broken open. Broken free. Maybe the deepest wounds birth deepest wisdom...

God does great things through the greatly wounded. God sees the broken as the best and He sees the best in the broken and He calls the wounded to be the world changers...

The seed breaks to give us the wheat. The soil breaks to give us the crop, the sky breaks to give us the rain, the wheat breaks to give us the bread. And the bread breaks to give us the feast. There was once even an alabaster jar that broke to give Him all the glory...

Never be afraid of being a broken thing.

When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go - always for our good and always for His glory...

There is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound - no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seed of a deeper growth...

Brokenness can make abundance.

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