Brokenness

Brokenness is a beautifully difficult thing. When we witness it in others we sympathize with them, comfort them, support them. When it happens to us, we feel as if the rug has been pulled from beneath our feet, as if our very intestines have been ripped out of our insides. Brokenness is painful but so necessary to be pursuant of Christ. It is not until we have been broken that we fully understand the fullness of grace. We need brokenness. I have witnessed it many times and experienced it a few times myself. It's the times that we reach rock bottom, brokenness, when we have nowhere to go but up, that we are ready to go where God intends us to go. There is great reward in brokenness. It is in brokenness that we are made whole and complete.