We Are All Broken

This was a commentary by Bob Schieffer of CBS at the end of his Face The Nation show on April 8, 2007.


"I have some thoughts for this season of relection 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 brokeness.

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 unlock many doors. The voice is always there - we only have to listen."
- Bob Schieffer -