The Breaking Season
I was in jail yesterday. For two hours I visited a friend who has some issues of the legal variety that is costing him some time away from his family during this holiday season and maybe a few more seasons after that. He is sad. He is in many ways a broken man. During our time together were able to have a face to face meeting with no glass in-between us. We hugged, shook hands and even held hands while we prayed together. He is sorry for what he has done and most guilty about the people he has let down. I sat with another friend last week, another today, a single mom a few weeks ago. All of whom are in the breaking season. They all hate it and want it to go away, yet all of them somewhat understand that these ugly things in their lives are going to, somehow, at some future point, in some way, make them more like Jesus. It’s a mysterious painful beauty of unknown dimensions and length that is steering their lives at this moment. For them it’s the breaking season… Pray for compassion, compassion for you to pass on to those who are living in the middle of the excruciating pain of life. Pray that you and I will be the lovers of the breaking people that orbit our lives.
posted by C.M. Coon at Wednesday, December 21, 2005
2 Comments:
First off, I wanted to tell you HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!
secondly, I think this post was very good, i was very interested, i've always wanted to go into a jail, more likely a juvy though and talk to those kids in there, and tell them there is hope. I mean i have down days but they are way more down the me. I need to remmeber that too, that even thouhgh i sturggle it is bring me closer to our father. GOOD STUFF Pastor Craig!!
the process of being broken is an excrutiating one, but it also leads to so many amazing life changes that it is far more than worth it. i have personally had three breaking seasons that were rough for me. thankful God is always there to be our shoulder to cry on and to listen to us as we shout and curse and play the divine blame game. God i pray that you will continually shatter your followers, and i hope that all of us can see our tragedies for a greater good.
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