Broken (Five Minute Friday)

Finally getting to my Five Minute Friday post this week. Yeah, a few days late. Yeah, my kids are away, so no excuses for why I'm late. Better to write late than not to write this week. I really like the 5 minute focus time. It's a lovely escape without actually having to go anywhere.

Here's how Five Minute Friday works:
On Fridays (or later ... just before the next week!), we gather over at Lisa-Jo's and write from the heart. Five minutes of whatever flies out of your fingers. The rules are simple -
1. write for 5 minutes flat. No editing, backtracking, over-thinking, on whatever the prompt of the week is.
2. link up and invite others to join
3. visit the brave soul who linked before you and leave a comment. Share a thought. Give an encouragement boost. That's the heart of the Five Minute Friday community. You never know who's day you'll make, and what you'll learn about your own heart along the way.
 
Ready? This week we're writing about BROKEN.

GO.

Almost 37 years I've been doing this journey called life. I've seen a lot of broken along the way. And A lot of glued-back-together-ing. Broken bones, broken glasses (worse than broken bones, as my eyesight is so terrible!), broken dishes and broken promises. Yeah, those hurt more than the others. One broken home, and broken trust. That's the worst - the broken trust from the one you thought you'd given your heart to forever.

They say time heals all the broken. And perhaps it does. It cerrtainly eases some of the pain, eventually. But as I reflect on the broken I've seen, the broken I've endured, I've realized there's one thing that can't be broken. Thanks to the precious gift of salvation, my soul is whole. Jesus filled in all the missing parts there, and that bond is unbreakable. 20 years ago this fall is the anniversary of the unbreakable soul in my life and knowing it is there makes it that much easier to walk the path of the broken, and unbroken, journey set before me. 

STOP.