broken things are to be shared
date. 2023 september 8
city. Oxford
to be broken and shared is our path to be whole.
We are broken beings
We are being with a lot of brokenness
Things that are shared need to be broken—we break bread and Jesus broke himself
But these are three different sorts of broken.
The first sort is an incompleteness, a lack. It can be understood as broken-from.
We are broken in this way. We did not become this way. We were created broken—with a lack, which gives birth to a yearning, to be whole, to be holy, to be with with god, godly.
The second is a sort of malfunction, a glitch, a problem. it can be understood as brokenness.
This is our brokenness. This is the result of sin. This is not in our creation.
The third is to be broken down and apart, as a result of action and for a purpose. It can be understood as broken-apart.
This is the way in which Jesus is broken. This is the way in which Jesus calls us to be broken. We are to let ourselves be broken and stay broken in this way.
Broken things are meant to be shared.
To be broken and shared is perhaps the cure to our brokenness.
To be broken and shared is our path to be whole—the calling the beings that are created broken, we are.
