Sweetly Broken

The Lord has been teaching me to let go of all the safe places that I tend to guard and protect. It's a crazy thing to look within yourself and see so much that can improve and change. And yet I know I can't do it on my own. I think our deepest longing in life is to know and be known by others. Ultimately we must do that with the Lord and he slowly teaches us how to mirror that with others. But I guess we are just all so broken and cracked that we hide behind these plastic faces...we can't trust, or be vulnerable or share our true self. Sometimes that's out of fear of not being good enough and sometimes we are afraid of being a burden. But what happened to being in each others worlds? It seems that the world tells us to grow up and be independant and to build a life that does not NEED anyone. But all the while, we are hiding the fact that we do need each other...and really, we want to need each other.

One of my favorite characters on TV is Bear Grylls from "Man vs. Wild". He told a story once of being the youngest person to reach the peak of Mt. Everest. He said he would never do it again and the biggest thing he learned was when he fell into a crevace and was saved from plummeting to his death by 2 friends he was tied into. He said, "I knew then that I needed people and that's ok". Don't we all want to be "tied into" someone when we reach our own life's crevace? Don't we want to be cared about so much that someone would care enough to reach down and risk their life to pull us out? And isn't that what Christ did for us? God teach me to love and be loved....and may I peer into you sacrifice afresh.

To the cross I look, to the cross I cling
Of its suffering I do drink
Of its work I do sing

For on it my Savior both bruised and crushed
Showed that God is love
And God is just

At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love,
I’m sweetly broken, wholly surrendered

What a priceless gift, undeserved life
Have I been given
Through Christ crucified

You’ve called me out of death
You’ve called me into life
And I was under Your wrath
Now through the cross I’m reconciled (Jeremy Riddle)