Broken

During 2020/2021 while we were in lockdown mode due to Covid 19 I spent a lot of my time writing music.

I am now starting to record my 4th album and one of the songs on it is called “Broken”.

I think all of us have felt that way at some point….especially perhaps during this pandemic.

There are always going to be points in our lives where things go off the rails : we make a mistake that costs us, we lose a pet, a marriage doesn’t make it, we have a fight with someone we love, we or someone we know gets ill…and gazillions of other scenarios.

We just feel ….broken.

Can there be beauty even in brokenness? Yes!

What I have learned from my most distressing times is much more important to me than if my life was always perfect. I suppose that’s what I hope to experience in Heaven someday but right now I have many lessons to learn and as difficult as they have been and will be ….I wouldn’t change the paths that led me to who I am now and who I hope to be.

We might not be able to see through the ‘broken bits’ at this time but they colour our world so that each and every one of us has beauty and a unique design and if we look closely, we might even see through to the beauty in any given situation….even the most difficult ones.

The other day I was telling a woman at my pool about my journey with arthritis and how many years I was in a wheelchair because of it.

She replied that she just thought I had the perfect life and it seemed like it would have always been easy for me. She didn’t know me ,we’ve only really just met, but this was the opinion she formed. Was it because I tend to smile a lot? Because I am a blond, white female? I don’t know.

But perhaps it’s because my broken times have led to me being so thankful for the times when I’m not feeling that way.

I’ll leave you with this…..