Brokenness

How do you deal with brokenness? Someone said, learn to create a beautiful mosaic out of your brokenness, but how do we do it? How can you create a beautiful mosaic out of something painful? How can you "create" when the pain is too much it feels like your chest is going to burst and you feel like howling no end?

What can break you? Many things, and sometimes bad news does. You try to avoid bad news but bad news has its way of getting to you. Bad news = problem. A wind carries it and lands it on your lap without you asking for it or even wishing for it. So you face it and not without a fight. You deal with it, and accept it, for your own sake. Bad news is ugly. Bad news brings pain. Bad news is.... just that, bad news and bad news contribute to your brokenness. And sometimes, bad news, no matter how small has the capability to break you further down to tiny pieces, tearing your soul apart.

But instead of succumbing to it, you deal with it. You face it and you fight it and you tell yourself you are stronger than the world thinks...You cry to wash away the pain but that's only temporary. Your crying will eventually end and after a bucket of tears and puffy eyes, you feel better. Broken but not fed up, you stand up and fight. Because that's what life is all about. Life will defeat you if you give up but life will reward you if you accept that pain is part and parcel of living, you relish in the moment of your brokenness, you fight back and pick yourself up again. And when you do that, you see light and when you see light, you become creative and when you become creative you learn to create something that's beautiful in your eyes and you start to feel and become whole again.