We place too much value on getting out of the valley and on top of the mountain, as if our goal and god is always some spiritual high. I have learned that when I live in brokenness, valleys and mountain peaks mean very little. There may be highs and lows even in brokenness, for it is certainly not living my life as a monotone. Brokenness is to embrace the brokenness of our incarnate Lord, living our lives in full identification with His life, and bearing our cross. It is living in humility and gratitude through loneliness, hurt, rejection, disappointments and pain. Brokenness is a way of experiencing simultaneously both the mountain top and the deep valley.
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4
