Have you ever felt as if something is broken in your life – either something within you or something in your circumstances?

Often, we run to destructive habits, like emotional eating, as a reaction to brokenness.

That negative habit promises to soothe us. And perhaps it does soothe us for a little while – making us forget the brokenness.

But sooner or later, those jagged pieces "cut" us again.

Before we know it, we get caught up in a destructive cycle; trying to escape that pain of brokenness to that something we hope will make us feel whole.

King David described this feeling well in Psalm 38:8:

"I am feeble and severely broken;

I groan because of the turmoil of my heart."

If you feel there is something broken in your life that keeps driving you to negative behavior, I have a prayer for you that will help you start the process of healing.