in need of mending

"and we are so fragile
and our cracking bones make noise

and we all are just

breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys"

-ingrid michaelson, breakable

i love the lyrical quality of ingrid michaelson's voice. it is full, melodic and rich. to me, she sounds like she is smiling while she is singing. her voice and songs are distinctive. she is a singer-songwriter, a poet and musician. the first time i heard breakable, her lyrics unfolded a truth that i have come to know: we are broken people.

actually, i believe we are born that way, though the cracks nor pain may not appear for many years to come. broken from birth and in desperate need of mending. we are so fragile, as michaelson writes, but skeletal fragility is, surprisingly, just a symptom of a darker reality. we are not passive souls, victims of an evil force that seeks to crush our bones, alone. no, i believe we have the propensity ourselves: the capacity to break others.

it is our nature. not that we fulfill the worst of its capacity, but it seems, that it is always lurking, crouching, waiting in the shadows to own us. in thought, action or reaction and words, i can break others and they can break me. we all feel real hurt and pain in relationships. and in them and this state, i feel helpless....and at my core, my soul, i am.

but one has come. his form like ours, but his nature not. he could do no breaking, himself. but he gave himself to be broken for all the breakable girls and boys. broken and poured out. love's libation. he became breakable to mend our brokenness completely. hope for the breakers, the breaking, the broken and the breakable: jesus

this post is my opinion; my own thoughts about the things i hear in songs. my posts are not intended to speak for the artist nor in anyway define or interpret the meaning of the songs that are mentioned. it is, solely, my opinion.