It’s okay to be broken. It’s okay to not be where you thought you’d be right now, where you want to be. Truth is, nobody else is either, or at least most of us aren’t. It’s okay to be flawed. It’s okay to have blemishes. It’s okay to be beautifully imperfect. It’s okay to be human. The weavers always wove a mistake into their rugs to remind themselves only Creator is perfect. We are here to be refined, but to need refinement means first you are rough. Unpolished stone. Corners and bumps and cracks. It’s okay to cry. It’s okay to acknowledge the pain the world has put you through. It’s okay to sit in the weight of it all and be “incapacitated.” Because within that brokenness is the stillness we need to honor our emotions. After they are truly and deeply honored, then they can be released and we can MOVE on. Thus stillness is sometimes the fastest pathway to true movement. Brokenness the fastest pathway to reassemblage and becoming whole. Don’t let the glitter and gloss fool you. When the lights go out and the night is quiet, we all fight our demons. We all struggle up our mountains. The trick is to see the beauty in the struggle, the beauty of our journey, however imperfect it can and will be. Stepping to the side of the path to rest does not mean you are giving up, it just means you are resting before you begin again. They are not asking us to be perfect. They are just asking us to try.
~ Lyla June