yearning for brokenness

You know those days where you just want to pack up everything, stop life and go on a long vacation. Well today is one of those days. It's not been really a very long day, but I am just sick of my daily routine. It's about time to get a new one. Ever look towards the end of a long day or month or semester and you realize that is not really the end? There is still so much more to do. That's about what my semester is like. The never-ending semester.

Anyways....in other news...I went to an Oxford girls get together last night. It was so nice and refreshing just to sit and talk with strong Christian women about life and all that comes with it. We prayed over one another and encouraged one another. We were talking about a friend of one of the girls and all the trouble he is going through in his life. It was more than just the daily struggles. His fiancee, after cheating on him, is now trying to kill herself, he's addicted to drugs and it is getting to the point he doesn't really care to continue his own life. Pretty serious stuff.

At one point when the girl finished her story and it got real quiet and no one knew what to say because of the overwhelming reality of the situation, I heard my friend simply say, "What brokenness." What brokenness is truly present in the world we live in. But brokenness does not only reside in the lives of the unsaved, but the saved just the same.

Worldly brokenness I long to cast aside and brokenness for the love of Christ I yearn to portray.