{"id":731,"date":"2013-03-13T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=731"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:26:47","slug":"its-okay-to-be-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/its-okay-to-be-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s okay to be broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our own ways, each of us hears that most sacred call \u2013 to return home, to come to know ourselves at the deepest levels, and to somehow allow this precious life to be organized around love. We have also come to see that to respond to this call requires everything<\/em> we have (and more); we are asked to step all the way into the unknown, taking the risk that love always requires. We sense that there is no way to make this journey without the breaking open of our tender, vulnerable hearts, in response to this blessed world.<\/p>\n

We want so badly to figure this life out, to resolve the sticky, gooey, messiness of the heart, and to control the movement of love. We know we can do it, we can hold it all together, we can remain strong, we can find a way to not completely shatter in response the tenderness of this life as it is. But in one moment out of time, we’re flooded with a certain kind of grace, and it becomes so clear: It\u2019s okay to fall apart, to let love take this life apart, and to reassemble it as the master architect that it is. There is no need to push this back any longer, for you were never together to begin with. What you are is love itself, which can never be contained, limited, resolved or pinned down. Love is never \u201ctogether,\u201d but is always moving within the unknown, as a raging fire seeding this world with its ever-purifying flames. Fall apart and resist the temptation to put yourself back together again \u2013 and see what is forever and into eternity untouched by concepts of \u201ctogether\u201d and \u201capart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"There<\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay to be broken, for in your brokenness love can then pour through the cracks of your being by way of the most luminous light. As you open in this way, you watch in awe as that same intelligence and creativity which birthed the stars moves through your body, making use of your entire sensory system to seed this world with its essence. Through all the ways you touch and deeply listen to another, wanting so sweetly to come to know how they organize their experience and how they make meaning of their lives, through the kind words that you speak and presence that you offer them \u2013 and even (especially) through all of your broken-open places \u2013 this life comes to be revealed as something much different than you originally thought. It is seen, finally, for what it is \u2013 a grace-field; and what you are is a unique, alive, unrepeatable expression of this field, a transparent vessel for love to move in this world.<\/p>\n

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