I have always been the person who had their life completely together. A person of order and always wanting to be in control. Giving up my life completely meant that for the first time I would not be in control and it was something was not willing to give up. It was a leap of faith I knew I would never do on my own, no matter how badly I wanted to. God has been working in my life like never before and it has been the scariest thing I have ever been apart of. I have never felt more broken yet filled with such peace. Through this season in my life, God has amazed me by the work he has been doing. The thought of being beautifully broken is such a new concept for me because I have always set myself to unreachable standard in every part of my life. From the outside, I have always wanted to look perfect and put together. I want to be the "perfect Christian" that I was blinded from the work God was doing in my heart. Being beautifully broken is such an easy thing to say but not always easy to do. I have been learning what this means and the process it takes. Before I was able to realize the awesome work God was doing in my life and how far he has taken me, I had to realize what it took to get there.

1) Learning to Worship in the Valley and the Mountain

It is so easy to praise God and give Him glory when everything is going perfect in your life. God gives us the dark times to show that he is truly the light of the world. It is okay to be in the valley and be broken sometimes because it just means that God is preparing you for something beautiful. He deserves all of our praise and worship in every part of our lives, even when everything is going perfect and it easy to forget that God is still working. When we lie in the lowest valley or run to the highest mountain God's love will find us and he is there.

2) Knowing that it is OK to be Broken

If you have never felt broken then how are you suppose to know what it means to feel whole? God proves that he is our healer by the scars we bear. Realizing that it is OK to not have your whole life together and finding the beauty that season in your life is when your faith begins to grow. Through the trials and tribulations, God is and always will be the King of all Kings and the Lord of Lords. What we have to remember is that it is okay to be rock bottom as long has we know who is our rock at the bottom.

3) It is Only a Season

A season is only a temporary period of time. It will stop raining no matter how badly it pours. When the sting of being broken begins to get to you it is so important to remember that God's plan and His thoughts are so much greater than ours. You are always right where he wants you. The seasons of brokenness and confusion is simply God just building you up for something so much greater than we can understand.

4) God uses the Beautifully Broken

The bible is full of examples of how God uses the Broken to do his beautiful work. He qualifies the called, he does not call the qualified. God has given us each a testimony to use to bring him glory. The greatest tool we can ever use is our own story and our own example.

We are promises that there WILL be trials and there WILL be tribulations in our lives here on Earth, but it is what we do and learn from those low points that help us grow. God has been revealing to me the beauty in the hard times, the beauty that can come from the ashes and the beauty of being broken.