A Heart That Is Broken Is A Heart That Is Open

“A heart that is broken is a heart that is open.” —U2

The suffering faith of the first Christians, a faith that changed a world, flows from a broken, contrite heart that forgives and takes joy in the redemption that Christ is bringing, the reconciliation of all things to God by the blood of the cross through which Jesus makes peace.

It is not surprising that fundamentalism (of all kinds) and the sort of scientism that denies God alike tend to be both close-minded and close-hearted, neither prepared to believe or trust the beauty of all that is visible because of all that is invisible, nor prepared to love all things without measure and at great personal cost.