There are many things I'm trying to figure out in this thing called life. There is much I don't know. One thing, however, that I've been thinking about a lot is, how truly interesting and complicated and beautiful and terrifying and wonderful, people can be. I love watching, observing, looking deep within and catching the light glint off that broken window pane down in someone's soul.
Fact: We all have broken windows within us.
I don't want to just talk to those around me. I don't want to simply swim in the shallow pools that we so often are content to swim in with others. I want to dive down, to listen and know, to be still and have another's soul slowly be revealed. We are fragile creatures. We build up walls around our true selves, determined to not let anyone see who we really are.
Fact: What an incredible waste of time this is.
Instead of expending all our efforts on building up walls, what if we tore them down. What if instead of walls, we erected a beautiful fence, covered in vines and blooming roses, with a gate that swings easily open when the right person walks through. Boundaries. Boundaries are different than stone walls erected high. Boundaries don't allow just anyone to walk through, but if the right person has the key, they allow the gate to be opened to the garden where our souls thrive. There will probably be many broken things within, because no matter how hard we try to do it all "right" life in general carries and hands out situations that are simply broken. We cannot expect to get through this life without brokenness. Yet, even in this, even in the shattered glass, there is beauty.
Fact: We are not made to be infallible.
We are allowed to get it wrong. We are allowed to not always have the formula that gives the perfect answer. There are no perfect answers in this life. That's just not how it works. However, the beauty remains that, through the imperfect, the flaws, the shattered and beat down, there is beauty that would not be there otherwise. If we were perfect, always right, never stumbling, the robots we would become could never compete with the imperfect, living and breathing creatures that we are. We are not perfect, we are often wrong, but our broken need of our Savior is truly beautiful beyond compare.
Fact: We get one life. One life to live fully.
So, what are we doing? We have one chance at this thing called life. Today is the only day that the clouds will hang in this day's sky. This day will not come round again. This day's sun will not shine again. This day is the only one of its kind ever in the history of the world and throughout eternity. Breathe in. Breathe out. Smile because you will not have a chance to smile on this day ever again. If today calls for tears, then cry them well, for they will not fall from your eyes on this day at any other time in your life. Kiss someone deeply, hug someone like never before. See those around you for who they truly are. Do not be fooled by walls and false facades. Live. Because you will not have the chance to live this day ever again.
Open your eyes and see.
Open your eyes and see.
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