My children don't often make the kind of profound statements I seem to read on friends' Facebook posts a lot, but yesterday, Austin made one where you think "Maybe it really is sinking in". We just got back in town from weeks of travel and Valentines Day totally snuck up on us. I didn't feel great and slept in to find Chris and the boys had made heart shaped pancakes for breakfast. As Austin was eating one, he ripped his pancake in half so it looked like a broken heart. Then as I was pouring the syrup on for him, he said "Jesus is like the syrup that puts our broken hearts back together again." Then he stuck his pancake back together.
Chris and I looked at each other and I almost cried, it was so sweet and just, true. Austin does not like to really talk about his feelings and as we work on this with him, I sometimes wonder if certain things we say register or not. But wow, he came up with that totally on his own. Chris and I just went spent a week talking about brokenness and how that is the place we need to be moving towards, even though usually brokenness makes us want to run the other way. It was very poignant to be reminded by my sweet son of this truth, that really it is just Jesus who can bind us together in a sweet, sticky way. And if we don't go to the places of brokenness, we can't experience Jesus doing that. So on this Valentines' Day weekend, pour Jesus on the brokenness in your heart and listen to the wisdom of seven year olds! Happy Valentines Day!
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