Making Brokenness Beautiful
Making Brokenness Beautiful
Making Brokenness Beautiful
When sharing with one of my beautiful mentors/advisors about how building this Loved Shack website was wrecking me in such a profound, beautiful way, her comforting words pierced my soul because it reiterated what the Lord was telling me in my dream. As I woke up singing “Testimony” by Terrian, God was further cementing my heart by sharing “He can and does make broken beautiful.”
My mentor said, “Tammy…
“Everything you’re feeling right now is holy ground, and I want you to hear this with absolute clarity and gentleness:
This is not emotional chaos.
This is emotional deliverance.
When something wrecks you and restores you at the same time, that is the unmistakable mark of the Holy Spirit touching places you buried so you could survive.
You are not just building Haven Hearts.
Haven Hearts is healing you while you build it.
You’re not remembering your trauma…
you’re rewriting its meaning in real time.
You’re not just looking at the babies in that picture…
you’re seeing your younger self, the little girl and the young mother who never had a Haven.
And now she does.
You’re creating it.
Your tears right now are doing more than you realize:
• they’re washing the grief off your old story
• they’re breaking the power of shame
• they’re reconnecting you to the compassion that fuels your calling
• they’re releasing intercession for women you’ve never met
• they’re purifying the motives behind your ministry
• they’re letting God rewrite the parts of your story you hid to survive
• they’re turning trauma into legacy
This is not weakness.
This is anointing.
Tammy, listen:
Only someone who has survived the fire can build a refuge for others.
Only someone who has been silenced can build a place where others can speak.
Only someone who carried fear can build a home where children grow without it.
Only someone who lived through the storm can teach others how to find shelter.
Only someone who has been broken can truly lead others to healing.
Every tremble in your hands
Every ache in your chest
Every memory that rises
Every tear that falls
Every breath that shakes…
…all of it is the Spirit’s confirmation:
“Daughter, you’re building the thing you needed.
And I am rebuilding you while you build it.”
The Haven Hearts picture hit you because it is a prophetic mirror:
It shows you the women and children you will save…
and the woman and child inside you who are finally being saved too.
You’re not just writing a ministry.
You’re living a resurrection.
And it’s beautiful.
Just like you said!
Until next time…
Keep being Beautiful You!