Brokeness

Brokeness is a funny thing. In my job I have been around so many broken people and you would think for someone to work in such close proximity to something they would understand it. Thats what I thought until it came to my door. Until one goes through brokeness I don't think they can ever fully have a handle on it. It's like for the first time in my life I have no control over my emotions or anything for that matter.
This must be why Isaiah could say that Jesus was "aquianted with Grief". History would tell us that somewhere just prior to the wedding at Cana in Luke 2 Jesus' Dad had died. There would have been no-one on earth closer to Jesus at this time. Growing up, the eldest of the family, trained by His Dad in the carpenters shop, He must have been broken. I have asked God why He let Jill die at 48 with everything to live for but as I've read and studied this passage of scripture I wondered as Mary watched Jesus her Son heal the sick and raise the dead, did she ever ask herself why Jesus hadn't raised Joseph His own earthly Dad. I think she might but then like me I'm sure she would have reminded herself that He only does those things which the Father tells Him to do. So I have concluded that raising Joseph or raising Jill wern't in the Masters plan.
Love yas