dailydatewithgod

If we embrace who we are at our core we live a different kind of life.  When we experience breakdowns in our life we tend to see them as failures.  We focus on the cracks and brokenness from the breakdown.  We compare it to things that still appear whole.  We compare ourselves to when we felt put together and unbreakable.  When we witness nature we see her breakdowns as part of the process.  We have the seasons where the flowers bloom and shrivel up, the trees grow leaves and then they fall off when they die.  Yet the following spring new life returns. We find beauty in the breakdowns of nature.  Why is it that a leaf which is dying has so many more colors than the vibrant green color when it is fully alive?  Why are we drawn to the sunset as the light breaks down over the sky and most people would tell you it is more beautiful than the light of the sun at high noon in the desert?  Are we not also part of this same foundation of life?  Are we not created by the same One who designed all the intricate movements in nature?  Perhaps our breakdowns do not shake us lose from our foundation but cause us to stop and take a look at where we have rooted ourselves.  Maybe our breakdowns allow the light of God to seep into places we have decided to keep from God.  We go through life and until we are shaken up a little, we may not stop to question what our foundation is.  God wants us to recognize love as our true foundation.  They may need to come through a process of questioning ourselves and God about who we already thought God was.  Maybe God wants us to shake up our understanding of what kind of God we view as our foundation.  The process of mending from a breakdown reconnects us to our core foundation if we walk through it instead of run from it.