Monday, April 7, 2025 — The Shattering Was a Beginning
Week’s Theme (April 7-11, 2025): The Bloom from Brokenness
It didn’t sound holy.
The break, the unraveling, the undoing of everything I thought I knew.
But it was the beginning of the bloom.
Sometimes the blessing sounds like breaking.
Words of Light
“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
—John 12:24 (ESV)
Reflection
There’s a sound that accompanies deep change—
Not always a joyful shout or a whispered prayer.
Sometimes, it’s the sound of something shattering.
The life you built.
The certainty you carried.
The identity you wore with ease.
When the breaking comes, it rarely feels divine.
But the breaking may be where your becoming truly begins.
We fear the fall apart, but what if it’s not the end?
What if it’s the clearing?
The sacred rupture that makes room for true bloom?
In every broken piece, there’s a chance to choose differently.
To plant something new.
To grow toward yourself—not the version of you that held it all together,
But the one who trusts God to hold her.
The bloom begins where the mask ends.
The bloom begins when the weight is dropped.
The bloom begins at the breaking.
You didn’t fail when it fell apart.
You began.
You are still blooming.
What has recently broken open in your life?
Can you see any light, clarity, or freedom beginning to grow through the cracks?
Affirmation
The breaking was not my end.
It was my beginning.
I am still blooming, and I trust the soil of my becoming.
Peace,
Rita
Rita Lynn Berry, EdS, LCMHC
Therapist | Poet | Author | Creator of Journey to Me™
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