Someone posted on my Facebook page, "We are all broken; and that's okay." There are many ways to be broken -- in heart, in spirit, in health -- but the resilience of the human race is phenomenal. Although some are shattered by these things and never recover, many are able to survive, overcome and thrive in spite of these traumatic events.
People have survived car accidents, falling from the sky, caught under water too long, "fatal" gun shots, "incurable" cancer -- the list goes on -- and they have survived. People have had their spirits and hearts broken -- by family members, religion, supposed friends, spouses or significant others -- and even though it feels as if they exist in a living death, they have survived.
The survivors have been broken and their lives have been fractured and cracked by these things, but some seem to have melded their fractured lives back together to become beautiful mosaics of life. Whether the fractures are melded together with gold, silver, lead or simply clay, their lives are a colorful mosaic lit by a warm glow or nearly blinding brightness from within, and the beauty of their lives brightens the lives of everyone around them.
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