As the days go on, I am starting to see a common thread among us. We are all broken, in the process of breaking or rising from the break. It doesn't matter from what or from whom, but all of us share this. I walk passed people and hear their comments about something, I see it in the eyes of an old friend, I feel it in my own heart. Here is my question. If we are all broken, breaking or have been broken.. why do we continue to live like we do? Have you ever stopped to think that while we carry on in the destruction of our own lives, we are causing the destruction in another's life? Jesus came to save us from the destruction we cause, but I think we need to start asking Him to save us from ourselves, rather than change our circumstance. I am learning a lot through the confusion that I seem to be living in for the last few months. Sometimes it seems unbearable, but today I realized something. When I need to understand, when Jesus needs me to see.. I will. It is as simple as that. Whatever you are waiting for, whatever you are hoping and praying for.. He will answer that prayer, He will speak to you when you need to be spoken too. He will answer that prayer when it needs to be answered. Until then, He wants us to keep asking, keep trusting and keep believing. He has more for us, if we see past our own destruction and let Him show us. The courage it takes to step outside of who we are and be the person He has meant us to be is hard, especially when we may not exactly know what that means. But I think its pretty simple.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
The key for beauty to rise is within our hearts. Within the love we show amongst our own pain and fear, and deep inside our longing for hope.
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