Solutions February 2018 | Page 60

own. This predicament is similar to the blind spots we have with our physical eyes. Our eyes are in the front of our heads and enable us to see what is directly in front of us. We can turn our head to the left and to the right and up and down, which means our viewing range covers, at best, a 180-degree view. This means that at any given moment, there are another 180 degrees we are not seeing. Even with the best eyesight, there will always be blind spots, sometimes significant ones. Brokenness rarely makes a formal introduction but rather hides and even thrives in our blind spots. What makes our brokenness even harder to detect is that we have learned how to function with dysfunction. It’s like using a crutch for a broken foot; as long as you have the crutch, you can still get around. That doesn’t mean your foot is any less broken, 60 Solutions but you might convince yourself that it’s fine because, hey, you’re still getting from one place to another, right? But the more functional we are with our dysfunction, the greater our self- deception. Why? Because we equate being functional with being fine. That may work for a while, but not forever. One day, the painful truth that all is not well will bring everything to a screeching halt. As I mentioned earlier, we all come into this world with a crack or two, which is some degree of brokenness. We didn’t choose it, but it is our reality. Then as we live in the world, we acquire a few more cracks, and the ones we already have deepen, sometimes into painful chasms. And that is the definition of brokenness. It means to be divided or split from within. We might acquire these cracks and splits in any number of ways. Here are just a few.