THE BROKEN CHRIST

Broken hearts, broken minds, broken spirits - God knows; He lived it.

Matt Pittman of @GeauxReadBooks has a profound take on Christ's suffering, and an epiphany occurred to me: the Brokenness of Christ is as unfathomable as our own.

For so many of us who have suffered catastrophies, Easter can feel hollow as a chocolate Bunny; the far away joy of a promised life can seem empty in the face of our brokenness. But this is the message we so often miss at Easter: Christ is Broken, too.

Christ of Saint John of the Cross - Salvador Dali, 1951

Christ doesn't 'bounce back'; He doesn't 'fight and win', He doesn't have a miraculous intervention on his behalf-
   
He is tortured and killed.
   
Christ is broken by His Suffering, even as we are; He is broken, even as every Human who prays by the grave is broken. He is broken, even as every criminal who ever died in a prison is broken - 

and in His suffering, God becomes Man.

It is the greatest sacrifice to Humanity from an Almighty God, to suffer as His Children do. And then, when all hope is gone, a Light erupts from the darkest place in the Human Soul, and the stone rolls away - 

Christ arose. 

We are hand in hand, God and Man, Creator and Creation, the ultimate story of love and redemption to ever grace the history of the universe - 

Broken, then Risen again, Christ and Humanity, alive eternal in Love.