Joyful Ruins

Resilience is not survival. It’s not a coping mechanism or a one-off decision.

Resilience is found in every human being, not to be held against them. Not to toughen the soft ones up or come out on top of others.

Resilience is deeply rooted hope. It doesn’t come from platitudes or happy thoughts. It doesn’t come from believing more or praying harder.

God created us with resilience, not because He wanted us to suffer but because He wanted us to be free no matter what happens to us.

Resilience is full of waves. It’s ups and downs.

It’s crashing and rising. It’s death and rebirth.

Resilience is impossible without a fall. Humanity is impossible without a fall.

Resilience does not deny the hard or refuse to feel it deeply.

Resilience breathes after a fall. It frees the hard to scream and shout. It allows the hard to be hard.

Resilience makes it so the hard is honored, heard, released.

Resilience leads you through, not over or around.

And once you are through, resilience expands. What once was hard may still be hard, but resilience will lead you to witness it so it’s cries are softened. There’s no more breath to scream, no more tears to shed. Hard has been heard and loved.

Resilience feels like expansiveness. A strength rises up, a joy unearthed.

Resilience reveals what was there all along, a hope buried deep, planted with in from the moment of your creation.

Resilience is yours and before you know it you’ll find it within.