Our 14-month son Aim has inherited a lot of toys from his
kuya Zek. And just like any normal toddler boy, he prefers to play with the
variety of toy cars, from die-cast to plastic ones, friction-pulled to
remote-controlled, fancy sports car to Winnie the Pooh colorful ones. He can
busy himself playing with these for long periods of time which gives my wife just
about enough breather to switch her energy to Zek’s homeschooling or other
pressing chores.
Interestingly and still a bit of a mystery for us though
is that Aim’s favorite choice among his car toys are two cars with a distinct
feature among the rest. One of their rear wheels is gone. Not sure how it got
lost but I am certain that he likes to play with them more than the complete
and fully-functional ones. I even tried once to deliberately hide the yellow
car below the stacks of other cars only to find Aim once again playing with it
a few moments later.
Sounds familiar?
I agree.
Most of us, better yet, all of us have felt or is now
feeling broken in our lives. And whether our brokenness was a result of other
people's wrongdoings or through our own making, the deep scar and mark it left
has somehow affected our set of beliefs that we are still lovable (read: forgivable).
And so, left within our own ways, we seek to trap ourselves more in the
quagmire of our brokenness, of sinfulness, of the cycle and pattern of pride,
lust, anger, envy, jealousy, vanity, materialism or immersions to vices (jobs
can be like vices too) or other unhealthy and sinful pursuits just so we can
feel "complete" again.
Is there hope for such brokenness?
Yes, there is but only one answer - God.
God is never interested in our brokenness. He sees beyond
the "missing wheel" in our seeming directionless lives. He
appreciates our true worth that only His heart knows eversince. And he will not
stop at anything to seek us out and bring us back to His warm embrace. As
Christians, we do know and believe in our hearts that God even sent His only
son, Jesus to personally extend out His invitation to be healed so that sinners
can be well again in the eyes of God and man.
Mark 2:17 Jesus heard this and said to them (that),
"Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not
come to call the righteous but sinners."
Do you feel broken (read: unlovable) in this moment?
Then seek out God's forgiveness through the Sacrament of
Confession.
Feel God's forgiveness.
Receive God's unconditional love.
