Open Arms For The Broken
March 10th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I spent the day with someone who’s in the middle of a divorce while they went through the legal process to end their marriage. The process was long, draining and emotional. No one goes into their marriage thinking theirs will end in divorce. Yet, many marriages do including those of many Christians. Even if the divorce was necessary, it still sucks. No one wins.
While I wandered around downtown Austin waiting for the parts of the process I could not be present for to be completed, I found this statute outside of St. Mary’s Church. The statue of Jesus struck me. Because in spite of the pain I had been witnessing in an office building nearby, this same Jesus holds his arms open wide for all of us sinners. He wants us to come to him, especially when we are broken and wounded.
