Brokeness and Reconciliation

Torn away from a loving God by our sin.
Sin tainted everything. All of creation has been saturated with this disease that brings so much pain, and every death the world has ever seen. Its in everything. Its in my heart, its in yours.
the broken hearted college kids see it in their empty relationships.
the homeless beggar sees it in the dirt on his emaciated face, in the churning of his empty stomach, in the tarnished photos of family that has turned their back.
every orphan has seen it in their heart deprived of love, never feeling security or the embrace of someone who loves them more than anything else in the world.
mothers see it when their sons and daughters are raped or killed.
new believers find it even in the ones that show them a loving God through molestation or suicide.
fathers see it burning in the eyes of their sons who are consumed by hate and anger.
Forgive me for exposing the darkness we spend all of our lives running from. All of these things are things I've seen in people i love, people that i've laughed with. Why haven't i cried with all of them?
Jesus started the work of reconciliation. he started pulling all of creation back into God, back into freedom from the destroyer of everything good, healthy, happy, and holy (sin not Satan). Jesus chased the hurting, the hated, and we run from the same people as fast as we can.
We were the ones Jesus chased, but now we've forgotten who we've been, and we can't look the people who need Jesus just as much as we did in the eye and say, "I love you." We can't bear to let go of the pride we've stored up from our petty achievements.
We can't even support each other with grace and love.
Jesus left this work of reconciliation to us, His beloved. This is not against you, this is against us, all of us fighting against ourselves.
Jesus carried His cross, and he carries me. i have legs, i have hands, the work starts now.