Where brokenness and beauty coexist
We talk a lot about the mountaintop moments. Those seasons where things finally make sense, when you feel connected, confident, or inspired. Where the view is clear and you feel like you’re finally becoming who you’re meant to be.
But we don’t talk enough about the moments in between. We emphasize the breakthrough, without exposing the breakdown. When your soul just wants to lay down and say, “I’m done.”
That’s the broom tree moment.
There’s this moment in the bible that explains the beauty of the broom tree. Not the mountaintop. Not the breakthrough. But the breaking point. It’s about a man named Elijah and honestly, his story feels painfully familiar.
He had just done something brave—something big.
And instead of feeling bolder than ever, he broke down.
He ran away. He sat under a broom tree in the middle of nowhere and basically cried out to God saying “I’m done. I can’t do this anymore.”
But God meets him there at that moment.
He sent an angel to take care of Elijah’s essential needs – food, water, and rest. God didn’t shame Elijah. He didn’t demand more faith. He didn’t tell him to get up and get over it. He met him in the very moment he was at the end of himself.
Because that is what God does.
Maybe you are in the middle of your broom tree moment right now.
If you are, I pray you realize you don’t need to “bounce back” quickly.
And I hope you let yourself be met in the middle of your “I’ve had enough.”
Because that’s not where your story ends. It might just be where a deeper kind of becoming begins. Maybe the breakdown is the beginning of not only the breakthrough but your becoming.
The broom tree moment is a picture I come back to again and again; where beauty and brokenness somehow coexist, and even a step further, are both necessary. I certainly do not have all the answers as to why some of the tragedies and traumas happen to us, but one thing I do know for sure, is there is beauty in the brokenness and purpose in the pain.
Xoxo, B
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