223: Because We Are Not Machines

We are not machines, even though most of us have grown up, quite without noticing it, as if we were in some essential way meant to be shiny, efficient, perfect, unstopping, optimal, results-producing mechanisms. And so we easily miss seeing the already-miraculous living beings that we are.

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Here's our source for this week:

Loving our brokenness

We have to find a way to love our brokenness

No, not loving ourselves in spite of our failings

But loving the brokenness itself

We have to love all the ways we’re late

And all the ways we missed the point

We have to love that we were scared

And that we were ashamed to say it

We have to love that we didn’t get it all done

And love that we imagined it was doable in the first place

We have to love that we’re such a glorious mess

And how we struggle to meet our own standards

We have to learn to love, in short,

all the ways we fall short

Because our grace, courage and capacity to stand

Our care of what’s broken in the world around us

Is strongest when we’re carried

by that which we’ve learned to cherish

And not when we’re mired

in that which we’ve chosen to hate.

Justin Wise (from a blog post, here)

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