Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 34 verses 18:
“The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
and will save those whose spirits are crushed.”
Leonard Cohen song Anthem ended with this beautiful lyric:
"There is a crack, a crack, in everything
That's how the light gets in”
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted. For a broken heart is the only one that can be mended. The wound is the place where healing happens.
The gift of our healing can only come to the broken. It’s not only in spite of but indeed because of our brokenness that the light of healing enters into the dark places.
Only the crushed spirit knows the miracle of a single, life-giving breath. This was the first miracle, and the last, and the one to come. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, this is the hope of the dead — the next breath.
The LORD does come near. With gentle hands He remakes us from the dust we are, and then with tender lips she breathes yet again the spirit of life into our mortal flesh.
The hole is where the breath moves through.
The crack is how the light gets in.
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