Brokenness (aka "Snapped" - Get it?)

"We need each other, never more than when we are most broken. But brokenness is not a disease, like cancer, that may or may not develop. Brokenness is a condition, one that is always there, inside, beneath the surface, carefully hidden for as long as we can keep a facade in place. We live in brokenness. We just don't always see it, either in ourselves or in others. A central task of community is to create a place that is safe enough for the walls to be torn down, safe enough for each of us to own and reveal our brokenness." - Larry Crabb in The Safest Place on Earth

I feel like I already knew this... Nevertheless it was such a powerful statement that I had to share it.