This life is blooming in you, through you, as you.
Friday, April 11, 2025 — The Garden Is You
Week’s Theme (April 7-11, 2025): The Bloom from Brokenness
You are not just tending the garden—
You are the garden.
You are not only growing—
You are what has grown.
Words of Light
“They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.”
—Isaiah 61:3b (NIV)
Reflection
After the storm, after the silence, after the shedding—
You may be surprised by what you see in the mirror.
You’re softer.
You’re stronger.
You’re clearer than before.
Not because you went untouched,
but because you allowed the touch of life to transform you.
You didn’t just survive the breaking.
You let it become sacred ground.
And now, look—
The evidence of your healing is all around you:
in the choices you make,
in the boundaries you set,
in the gentleness with which you speak to yourself.
This isn’t just your life growing forward.
This is you.
Your soul, your story, your stretch toward the sun.
You are the garden.
Every moment of pain was a seed.
Every prayer, a watering.
Every tear, a softening of soil.
And now—look what’s blooming.
This is not just about what you lost.
It’s about who you become because of it.
You are not behind.
You are the bloom.
And you are the blessing.
How have you changed in the aftermath of loss or hardship?
What strengths, gifts, or clarity are blooming in you now?
Affirmation
I am not just growing—I am the garden.
My life is a bloom of beauty, strength, and sacred transformation.
Peace,
Rita
Rita Lynn Berry, EdS, LCMHC
Therapist | Poet | Author | Creator of Journey to Me™
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