When we are first aware of our own brokenness, our eyes are opened to see our own faces in the faces of the oppressed and to see our own hands in the hands of the oppressors. Then we shall all be truly free
-Shane Clairborne

This has been a constant prayer of mine over the last couple of months; a pray of being broken so that I can truthfully see the brokenness around me. Society has deemed brokenness as something so unworthy and unwanted; to be broken is to be of less value than of something that is untouched and in one piece. To God it is something completely opposite; something worthy, and wanted. It used to not make sense to me why God would call us to become so broken, but finding out the vulnerability, instability and rawness that brokenness causes, and having everything striped away, I have figured out the endless room it leaves for God to create, restore and truthfully show us whats going on. Living the comfortable western life we do, we are too often blinded by our "perfect" world and close our eyes to the real world. But God calls us to open our eyes, and to let him utterly and completely break us so that we can fight for this world and in turn be truly free.
I hope that God continues to break my heart for what breaks his and that in my brokenness I live to make a difference; a difference of love, hope, and change.