Brokenness

I have been pondering a quote from Gene Edwards in Celtic Daily Prayer for the last few days. It is about being broken. I took the word "broken" to mean being "useless," like being broken down at the side of the road, or being broken off from the vine, like Jesus warns us not to be.

Edwards says that the broken man is not rebellious. He is at peace with his circumstances, not rebelling against what other people do to him and certainly not rebellious against what God has brought to him.

As a...