MOVING BEYOND BROKEN HEARTS (1)
Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:1, 1 Samuel 1, 1 Samuel 2:11
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Moving Beyond Broken Hearts (1)
Series: 1 Samuel
Robert Dawson
1 Samuel 1:1-2: 11
In the 1920s Langston Hughes, a young African American writer, moved to New York City to join what became known as the Harlem Renaissance, an explosion of creativity among black artists. Through his poetry, Hughes often tried to capture the common struggles and heartaches of people in his neighborhood-like this poem simply titled ''Dreams'':
Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams,
for when dreams go,
life is a barren field,
frozen with snow.
Some criticized Hughes for his negative portrayal of everyday folks, but Hughes was adamant that he wanted to write about the brokenness experienced by ordinary people just living life. He once said that his poetry is about ''workers and singers and job hunters on Lenox Avenue in New York or South State in Chicago-people up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled...buying furniture on the installment plan...hoping to get a new suit for Easter and then pawning that suit before the Fourth of July.'' (Preaching Today)
He's right. Life offers great joy and beauty, but we also know the brokenness and bitterness life can bring as well.
If you were to plot your life on a graph, it would look like a jumbled mess of random disconnected dots, some representing moments of sheer joy while others the mundane routines of life but interspersed throughout, punctuating all of life, breaking into the joyous times and disrupting the routine would be moments and seasons of disappointment and brokenness, those times when life appears to be a ''barren field frozen with snow'' and when we feel like a ''broken winged bird that cannot fly.''
Brokenness, disappointment and suffering are an unfortunate but very real part of life. That is why someone wisely said ''preach to the suffering and you will never lack a congregation. There ...
Series: 1 Samuel
Robert Dawson
1 Samuel 1:1-2: 11
In the 1920s Langston Hughes, a young African American writer, moved to New York City to join what became known as the Harlem Renaissance, an explosion of creativity among black artists. Through his poetry, Hughes often tried to capture the common struggles and heartaches of people in his neighborhood-like this poem simply titled ''Dreams'':
Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams,
for when dreams go,
life is a barren field,
frozen with snow.
Some criticized Hughes for his negative portrayal of everyday folks, but Hughes was adamant that he wanted to write about the brokenness experienced by ordinary people just living life. He once said that his poetry is about ''workers and singers and job hunters on Lenox Avenue in New York or South State in Chicago-people up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled...buying furniture on the installment plan...hoping to get a new suit for Easter and then pawning that suit before the Fourth of July.'' (Preaching Today)
He's right. Life offers great joy and beauty, but we also know the brokenness and bitterness life can bring as well.
If you were to plot your life on a graph, it would look like a jumbled mess of random disconnected dots, some representing moments of sheer joy while others the mundane routines of life but interspersed throughout, punctuating all of life, breaking into the joyous times and disrupting the routine would be moments and seasons of disappointment and brokenness, those times when life appears to be a ''barren field frozen with snow'' and when we feel like a ''broken winged bird that cannot fly.''
Brokenness, disappointment and suffering are an unfortunate but very real part of life. That is why someone wisely said ''preach to the suffering and you will never lack a congregation. There ...
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