[Vision2020] We Are All Broken (Bob Schieffer)

[Tom Hansen]

>From Bob Schieffer's closing commentary on today's (April 8, 2007) "Face the
Nation" -

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We Are All Broken
By Bob Schieffer

I have some thoughts for this season of reflection that began with Passover
and ends with Easter. 

Last summer at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I interviewed a minister named T.D.
Jakes. He is an African American pastor of a Dallas megachurch of more than
30,000 people. He said something that day I shall never forget. 

He reminded us that no one is perfect, that we are all broken somewhere. 

But he said that is not all bad. A key is broken in all the right places to
fit a certain lock. When that key is placed in that lock, there is a quiet
click. When we meet a person who is broken in the right places to
accommodate our brokenness, there is a click. 

It can happen in other ways: An introverted person hears that click when he
finds a job that can only be done by a person who works well alone; or when
we face a life-altering decision. 

Whether it is a job, or a relationship or even faith, something clicks when
we find the place that accommodates our uniqueness, or brokenness. 

Some religions teach prayer - some call it meditation - but there is within
each of us some mysterious, inner thing that tells us when something clicks
- we don't know how or why, we just know. 

We are all broken. But listening for that click can help us to unlock many
doors. The voice is always there - we have only to listen.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)