Our lives are filled with broken things — just take a look around yours. Your attic, your garage, your outbuildings, the “barns” of your life. More than likely, you have some broken things in yours as I do in mine that you just can’t bear to part with. Take a moment and think about all the storage facilities that have popped up around the country, and I can just about guarantee you that many of these storage units are filled with some broken things. Broken things that folks have been holding onto for years that they just can’t bear to part with. All out of some perceived value or sentimental reason, that someday they might have need of them or find a use for them again.
When I sold my place in Wyoming several years ago, I threw away all kinds of broken things that I’d been holding onto for years. Needless things, that had been cluttering up and occupying the spaces in the barns of my life for way too long.
Ernest Hemingway once said, “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Old Ernest was right, for the world does break everyone, and if I might add, not just everyone, but everything, and it’s by design. For the things of this world, were never meant to last, or as some have said, “built to last,” and this we all know from our barns to the sa ...
