Broken Soul

Several years ago I met a person while ministering at a church who had really been through it. In contrast to my life, their previous life was completely awful. But, this person had so much joy! Most people probably couldn't guess the level of horror they survived. In fact, this person grew up in abusive terror. Sexual abuse, physical abuse, and verbal abuse were normal everyday occurrences from their own Father. What kind of parent pimps their child for drugs?

Undoubtedly you would think the Mother of this person would have defended her child from the evil committed by their very own Father! When this person I will call our "Hero," informed their Mother of the abuse, she did not believe them. Both parents were addicted to substances legal and illegal. My hero in this story ended up pregnant, by her own Father and in was placed in foster care. Now a teenager with a child, she ultimately ran away and ended up on the streets.

In like manner, often is the case with people who suffer from such terrible and traumatic events, this person's life started down the same trajectory. "Sometimes when pain is all you know it is all you can give," she shared with me. Drugs, prostitution, and now the responsibility of her own child, her life spiraled out of control. After being high she accidentally killed her child, the "trapped sentence" of prison became her prize. Subsequently she felt like her own death was imminent.

But prison was a blessing in disguise because there in the trapped walls, she found out Jesus loved her. He set her free. In the meantime, in my brain as I was listening to this deeply personal story I kept hearing the words "Broken Soul." After church my family and I headed home and the Lord gave me her story in song. This is how "Broken Soul" was born.