Even when the circumstances we face in life can feel so bleak, there is so much hope to hold onto, even in the little things.
This life we've been given is so incredibly beautiful.. it really is. I am so baffled when I sit and reflect on life's beauty. We face so much as people, we feel and experience enormous amounts of incredible pain. We often feel the bitter, cold sting of loneliness as yet another relationship falls apart. We break into pieces at the realization of another lost dream. We're bent over by expectations placed on us by others, and by ourselves, that will never be met - yet, still we kill ourselves trying. Our warm beds do little to offer our empty, broken souls comfort while we fall asleep on pillows soaked with bitter tears. We chase after everything - relationships, appearance, success - just to fill this terrible void, this hole in the heart of us that reminds us daily that we are not whole. Our souls long for rest, for peace, for joy.. yet in all our meaningless searching we've only found more pain. We become so hopeless, so convinced that the only thing this life has to offer will eventually hurt us, and leave us even more broken than before. We settle for "good enough" because we no longer believe in "the best". Our souls are crying, and we refuse to be comforted because we don't believe that love comes freely. We have placed a price tag on everything - even on ourselves - and we spend each day trying to convince ourselves and each other that we are worth something. We bargain and bid, and when it feels as though time is running out, we sell ourselves for whoever the highest bidder is. We don't believe in unconditional love, because the only love we've seen always has conditions. We've been burned, we've been bruised, we've been broken, abused and used - all by those who claimed to love us. We no longer believe that there can be something else. We can no longer see that there is someone else.
We all have two things in common: We are all broken and our souls long to be whole, and we all have someone who gave us everything, who gives us everything, who has loved us with everything.
We were not meant to live this life of brokenness. We were never created to walk with our heads down. Our hearts were not intricately designed to be dragged on the ground in chains. We were never meant to be slaves.
We were made to be free. To live, to really live.. We were made to shine. We were created to live in intimacy with our Maker and each other. Our hearts were created for love - real, hardcore and unconditional love. Without such love we are never satisfied. We're here to simply be loved.. to be lavished in love, to be changed by love, to be made new in love, to live in love. We were meant to love - God and each other. This is our purpose - this is what we were meant for. This is what we were designed for. This is why we're alive. But we're so broken that we no longer believe we deserve this. We don't believe we are worth this kind of love.
But it is here. This love is being offered, and its only expectation and hope is to be accepted whole heartedly. Love is calling us. It sees our broken and helpless estate and cries, "Come here, come away with Me and be whole, and live free."
So will we, with our dirty hands take the graceful hand of Love Himself, Jesus Christ, and let Him lead us into a new and beautiful life with Him? Will we, knowing our brokenness, let Him carry us, heal us, and let Him teach us how to dance with Him? Will we let His Spirit replace our broken souls so we can finally live as whole beings in His freedom? Will we give Him our broken lives and let Him live His life, His way, through us? Will we let Him finally love us, and will we love Him back?
He is offering us a life of hope. A life where we can dream again. A life of beauty. A life of overflowing joy. A life of purpose. Will we accept this new life?
--Peace and Love.
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