STruggle or strength, write the testimonies of your scars

​Humanity has two very important common denominators:

Struggle and strength.

Our stories are almost always centered on brokenness or breakthrough. The problem is, too many stories miss the breakthrough because they are overwhelmed by the brokenness.

But every broken story is an invitation. It's an invitation to see the opportunity to break through with a strength we never would have found if left unbroken.

I always think of Jesus and how he sought out broken stories. He sought them out to remind the broken that they are being invited into healing and breakthrough.

How do you ever help someone find greater strength if they believe they have all the strength they need. Greater strength is almost always reserved for the broken.

Brokenness has been by far the greatest teacher in my life. Nothing has reminded me that I am stronger than I ever imagined than coming out on the other side of every single broken story I've ever had.

Coming out stronger.

Coming out with scars that scream stories of strength.

That strength hasn't always come overnight. Some of it has taken decades. But it ultimately comes when I see my broken stories as invitations.

Invitations to live stories of strength and not struggle.

Maybe you're struggling today? In the midst of the struggle, and I know some of those struggles are hard, but in the midst of them try to hear the invitation.

Try to hear the invitation to write the testimonies your scars are begging to tell.

Testimonies of strength. Because I promise you, you are stronger than you know.