Lesson 35 -
There is a crack in everything that’s how light gets in.
When a crack forms is it telling us something is broken or showing us another way?
In Leonard Cohen’s 1992 song he sings: “Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.”
Consider how these words can be applied to life, circumstances forever change, careers lose their shine, friendships drift apart, love fades away, and life moves.
Years after composing the song, Cohen said that the cracks mentioned in the song are places of confrontation with the brokenness of things. Through them we grow, we acknowledge whatever is broken forever and what can still be fixed.
Today’s lesson is: There is a crack in everything that’s how light gets in. The cracks are the places where we can see the light on the other side. The cracks are testimonies of our imperfections, of our failures. And to be honest, there isn’t anything more natural than that. Cherishing them is hard, but sometimes it is totally necessary to look at us with tenderness. Above all, the cracks are nothing but our own humanity.