If I were to call you a "broken" person, you would probably resent it. But the Bible says that a certain kind of brokenness is essential if we are to be close to God. That late Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard could tickle the funny bone of almost anybody. But when he wrote about his father, he could make you cry. His father was a soldier, a veteran of World War II who returned to military duty in Korea. There in brutal warfare against the Chinese, Mr. Grizzard, Sr. saw more suffering and horror than he could bear. He came home a broken man. The disease of alcoholism took him to an early grave. That kind of brokenness is tragic and heartbreaking. All of us are broken by sin to some degree. That is, we have inner flaws that only God can heal and correct. That kind of brokenness is sad, to…