Beautiful Scars

Life as we know it has wonderful times and its challenges too, and each and every one of us go through this. The problem is most tend to dwell much on the bad. Of course things happen and probably we do not take it well but we have to move past it and get rid of that pain deeply buried within us, mend our brokenness and shine.

Wounds are like teachers, they instruct and remind us of certain paths in life that we should never take.

They also serve as an instructor to our peers, to protect them from getting the same wounds we got. At times it can be God's doing as a way to teach us (Job 5:17-18):

"Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole."

God also comforts us when He wounds us, He controls life and when you aquire a wound through Him, it does not kill you; it teaches you. These are what I believe to be "beautiful scars". Not pleasant to aquire but also serve as a testimony of survival.

Situations such as broken families, failed relationships (romantic and none romantic), divorce and failed friendships may also leave us broken hearted. And most people tend to blame themselves for these mishaps in their lives and won't allow themselves to live a peaceful life. No one asks for bad things to happen in their lives but there is a reason why God let it happen.

There are some wounds so deep and not easily forgotten e.g rape, domestic violence and discrimination. These wounds carry a lot of pain, and unwanted memories, but survival from such trials and your story can help those that go through the same challenge. It becomes  a helping hand to uplift another person, a tragedy turned to "beautiful scar".

God does not put you in a situation He knows you can't handle and He brings different people in your life so you learn a couple of lessons from them.

Feelings and emotions may lie to you that God does not love you but God will never remove His love for you. You might have gone through divorce, rape, abuse, abandonment or even lost a loved one but that pain you felt or still feel does not define you. Don't let that pain be  part of your life forever but let it make you stronger. Let it make you desire only the best that God has in store for you.

Trust me when I say brokenness can make you feel depressed and lonely and even resent the people around you because of what you went through and from my experience it's not a great feeling. But I made a conscious decision that my life will never be defined by the negatives, loses and challenges I encountered in my life's journey.

I stumbled upon a Japanese concept whereby broken clay pots or any piece of furniture is not thrown away but put back together and painted gold on the cracks and thus it all looks new and beautiful with its cracks. I got a deeper lesson from this that in life we can be broken and have scars from different things we encountered but let's paint our scars gold and shine. 

The world shouldn't see our scars but rather see beautiful people who do not let life situations define them. No one is broken beyond repair, you can pick yourself up and make your life amazingly beautiful. Paint those scars gold, silver, bronze and turn something ugly to something wonderful and exquisite. 

Sometimes it takes being broken to be a better version of yourself. Be inspired!