Currently listening to “Gracefully Broken” by Tasha Cobbs

What does it mean to be broken? To be broken is to be damaged or no longer in one piece. But what about gracefully broken? Grace is undeserved favor; thus, to be “gracefully broken” is to be broken yet blessed.

I had recently been having some issues with a clogged drain in my shower. I tried everything to fix it myself—vinegar and baking soda, boiling water, drain cleaner. Eventually though, I had to come to a conclusion:

Some things I cannot fix myself.

At some point, no matter how bad I wanted to avoid it, I was going to have to let someone in to fix what was broken.

We have to realize we are broken, incomplete as humans, in order to let God’s light in, don’t we? Ironically, we have to accept our brokenness in order to be made whole; we have to surrender our control in order to gain it. God can’t get through to someone who thinks they have it all together without Him.

There was a point in my life I saw myself as gracefully broken; these days, I like to think of myself as gracefully whole. I’m whole not by my own works, not by my own might nor power nor strength. I’m whole by the grace of God, by completely undeserved and unearned favor.

There’s many things I would do differently if I had the chance to; that’s what repentance is. I’m grateful, however, for a past that exposed my true state of brokenness and need for God’s love. I’m grateful for the gracefully broken girl on that broken road that led me to Him.