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I Was Never Broken

For a long time I have referred to some of the struggles in my life as ‘brokenness’.   I don’t say this anymore.   I am not broken.   The bible says we are ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’ (Psalm 139:14).    Do this mean we won’t struggle?   No.   We will struggle.   What we do to cope with this struggle can be labeled as brokenness. So I have been learning to reframe brokenness as ways of getting along that I perhaps no longer need.   Either I have new tools, or the assumptions about what I need are no longer valid.   My so-called brokenness is not brokenness at all.   It is strength.   It got me through a difficult time when I had no other tools available to me.   My previous self wasn’t broken.   She was courageous and strong. If you stop looking at yourself from a framework of brokenness, it gives you power.   You suddenly realize that, with God beside you, you can handle way more than you think.   By not starting from a place of deficiency, you fight for yourself and what