You walk through your normal circle of a day and wonder how all these people around you are breathing. Oh, right...today is not their broken-heart day. But since their broken-heart day will come--from tragedy, from mean things said and/or done, from something--if we figure out a next step for today's broken heart, could it help?
I think the trickiest part of a broken heart is that it changes how we see ourselves. If it is from an accumulation of mean things said, then our picture of self is like a mirror that has dozens (or hundreds) of mean-darts stuck to it--they become like a frame around it that holds your image of yourself. The mean-things-frame makes you question the very journey of your personality.
Is there a next step that makes a difference? I mean besides breathe and keep getting up every day? I think it is to cry out to someone you trust and let their mirror of you be the one you hear until your strength comes back--the strength needed to ask God to change out the mean-things frame and replace it with His view-of-you frame.
Is this a ceiling? Of the worst kind. The energy for our calling needs to come from the confidence we have in our person, our personality, and our pursuit. A mean-things frame will rock every bit of confidence we have and put a ceiling on our willingness to participate in the adventure of life. May today not be your broken-heart day. But since it is inevitable, may it be short-lived and turned around quickly with the mirror that suits us best: God's view of us.
