The potency of a heart that’s broken.  Crushed but not destroyed, as broken hearts are powerfully motivating.  In that moment when we suffer we find our weakness and His strength to do the impossible.  If it is for the sake of others then we begin to seed, feed and weed the fields preparing for greater harvest.  If on our own, we are set apart for communion with a Holy God, our Father, Daddy, to discuss the pain and recovery.  If watching a friend or family member suffering from a cracked emotional housing, ie, heart, then we are filled with Christ’s compassion for the wounded and may institute the gifts of healing present in the Spirit.  What then are the bad parts of a broken heart if it presents all these ripe circumstances for harmony, relationship and growth?

Should my heart remain broken, a housing for extended mourning?  There is an idea that is worth investigation.  You will find in scripture that we are called to that suffering period for the purposes of God’s Glory.  If I suffer for Christ and I mourn humanity then I will set my mind, back and will to harvest.  Christ says that the fields are ripe and that we are to reap the harvest that we did not plant, the work others gone before, sowing seed, weeding, watering a fertilizing that we might pluck that ripened fruit.  What a blessing then this broken vessel of mine beckoning me to the Lord’s Great Work.

I am not a glutton or masochist, just a servant of the Most High God.  And as such, what the Lord says is the appropriate or best defined mental, spiritual status for my maturation and productivity is by definition my premiere status.  Therefore, I enjoy my heart’s weeping state.  Yes, it hurts because it is meant to hurt and that hurt is designed to sponsor a call to action.  Jesus wept because He desperately wanted to gather His sheep as any good shepherd desires.  He wept for their lack of readiness and disobedience and the subsequent suffering they would endure for said state.  The Lord loves us and that simple but humbling fact breaks my heart.  What a wonderful gift.  In Jesus’ Name I weep and pray.  Amen.