a rolling stone waiting to be set in motion

Brokenness usually starts with callousness. And callousness starts slowly. Your Christian married couple you look up to separates and a brick is added. You skip reading your bible one day and a brick goes up. Someone says what would usually be a funny sarcastic comment at the wrong moment and a brick goes up. People who you love are having hard times, but your too far away to help and a brick can go up. A sin, a stronghold that you thought you over came, you thought you were done with, sneaks back into your life, and a brick goes up. The downward spiral continues until you have a full fledged wall built around your heart. And things continue till you get to the end of your rope, like a spider hanging from it's thread over an open fire. It's only a matter of time, either God makes you broken, or you keeping building the wall till you can''t find your way out.

But brokenness is never an easy thing. It being open, being humble, being in pain. And sometimes it seems like despair.
But when God brings brokenness, He also brings freedom. And when your broken you can begin to rebuild, not a wall, but bridges, bridges to God and to other people. God work's through the weak, because that's pretty much all there is to work with here on earth.

Brokenness isn't fun, but it's necessary and in the end it brings you closer to God.