With every trial, every error, every heartbreak, I let the parts in me that allowed it.. to die. I gave life to other things, better things. I wish I could say it came easy but the truth is that some of those times when I knew I needed to let go, I still wanted to hold on.

Remembering how God got me out the emotional mess that I was in was the process that helped me break through every time.

He showed me how to pick my life back up again but this time I was a different me. I am a little wiser, a little stronger, a little better because of it.

I think that’s what he meant when said beauty for ashes.

``` To console those who mourn in Zion,

To give them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they may be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. Isaiah 61:3 NKJV ```

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