“I was just heartbroken.” We have all probably said that a time or
two. Sometimes there is nothing more to
say. Sometimes it is lighter situations that seem dreadful at the time. Your favorite team plays a great game but
just comes up sort at the end, it can be a heartbreaking loss. If you are a
sports fan, your heart will be broken. Then there are deeper more serious,
deeper, hurtful times when we utter that profound statement. When you look
around our Centralia community and witness young people lives cut short, lives
that are full of promise, hope, and anticipating tragically cut short: as a
community our hearts break. If you ever
risk love, your heart will get broken and those wounds go deep. You even
weather you realize it or not take that brokenness into the future relationships
as well. The wounds go deep. Our hearts can break for others as well. When a
family member or friend gets those awful words from a doctor, our heart can
break. Whenever a child’s life is ended way too soon in our community, it is a
tragedy, but it also can break our heart, damage soul, and destroy our spirit
as well.
So we stand among the rubble of what once was, with our hearts broken
as we try to rebuild. We desperately search for meaning in our brokenness but
many times there is none. So we stand in the middle of the chaos of our lives,
with our hearts broken, not know how, when, and where to start to rebuild what
was lost in our life. We begin not with the unknown but with the absolutes in
our life. We know that God is a God of
love and life. One thing that is consistent throughout scripture is God is the
God of love and life. He had provided for us love and life in this life and
beyond. We know that brokenness is a season. A painful season but like all
seasons both good and bad, seasons change. We also are absolute that God is a
God of reconciliation. God love it when we come together without conflict. Most
importantly if we look back from the beginning, God creates best out of chaos.
It was out of chaos God created the physical world in which we live. It was out
of chaos God sent His son to restore grace, mercy, and forgiveness in a new
covenant. If we read the stories of both the Old and New Testament, we will
find hundreds of rich stories where God created something better out of chaos,
suffering, and brokenness. Let us not forget God can do the same in our
brokenness as well. We must invite Him into our pain, chaos, and sadness. Because
when our hearts are broken, God’s heart is broken as well. Join us as we
uncover more rebuilding blocks as we rebuild from the ruins of our lives.
Just Love one Another
Tommy
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