Brokenness

In this episode of "Girl, You Better Talk With Tanya," Tanya discusses the concept of brokenness. She challenges the negative perception often associated with it and suggests viewing brokenness as an opportunity for growth and positive change. Tanya shares personal experiences and emphasizes that brokenness can lead to finding peace, purpose, and one's true self. She encourages embracing the process of being broken and rebuilt, as it can ultimately lead to greatness and a stronger sense of identity. Tanya reminds listeners to trust in God's plan and rejoice through the challenges. Hey, and welcome to Girl, You Better Talk With Tanya. And today's word is brokenness. Too often when we think about brokenness, we think of it in a negative aspect. And when you look at it, it is sort of kind of negative. But today I want you to have a different view, seeing brokenness, not negatively, but seeing it as positive. And you say, Tanya, girl, what are you talking about? But we understand that brokenness is an emotional pain, that sometimes it stops us from living the life that we want to live, living productively and living a healthy life. Yet we hear people say a lot, because I've been in this place, we hear people say it was in our brokenness that we found out who we were. It was in our brokenness, or it was in my brokenness, that I actually found peace. It was in my brokenness that I actually came out a better person, or, you know, it was in my brokenness that I saw financial freedom. So brokenness, it's not necessarily bad in the sense, it's just the way that your mind process your brokenness. And in brokenness, like I said, you can find your peace, you can find your purpose, you can find your destiny, you can find you in your brokenness. Because when you're broken, I mean, when you have truly, truly been broken, that's the opportunity for your greatest rise. That's the opportunity for you to come out of the ashes, for you to come out of the fire, not smelling like fire. But there's a sweet fragrance around you, surrounding you, on you, about you, when you can come out of. And when you come out of a broken situation, whether it's a broken marriage, a broken job, you know, a broken family, whatever it is that you can conquer in your brokenness, it's going to take you to a greater place. Because when I was broken, that one time that I can remember where I was truly broken, where I lost everything, that was the time that I grew closer to God. That was the time that I really began to see who Tanya was, outside of the things that I had acquired, or the job, my job, my business, whatever it was, I actually saw Tanya for who Tanya really was. And I always, on jobs they ask, it was like, who are you? And I would name things that I did, or I would name titles that I had. And I equated that to who I was. But when I was broken, when I got broken, I mean, literally broken, it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me, because then I realized I was not those things. Those were things that I did. They were functions that I did, but that was not who I was. And I learned who I was. I saw who I was. And I saw myself totally different, because I no longer had those things that I equated to who I was. So brokenness is not bad. Brokenness takes you to a place of freedom. It takes you to a place of knowing who you are authentically, but you have to have the mindset to be able to process what it is that you're going through and to not let your circumstances, let your situations, let your trials, let your tribulations determine and dictate who you are. And you can't allow it to say, okay, this is where you're going to be. Nah, because that's not where you're going to be. That's not your end result. What it is is the process that you're going through to take you to an even higher and take you to a greater place. When we think about having a harvest, I'm from the South, so I've seen like harvest time. I've seen gardens planted at a certain time in the year, and when it's time for that harvest to reap, I've seen the harvest reap, to be reaped. So that's what brokenness is. It's like you've been taken through this process, and in this process you're being molded, you're being shaped, you're being, I would say, rebuilt, so to speak. It may not be a good word, but rebuilt to be who you are truly called to be. It's to be who you are, because our greatest harvest can begin from our brokenness. Crops are produced by broken soil. Rain comes from the broken clouds. Bread comes from broken grain. Broken bread can give us strength, and broken people that have made up in their mind and that have chosen to surrender, that have chosen to submit, and that have chosen to trust God will do great things. So don't be ashamed when you find yourself in a broken place. Don't be ashamed when you find yourself going through trials and tribulations, because you're the perfect candidate to rise, and to rise in greatness. You have to understand that the Father is at work in you. He's put in you together again. He's taken the imperfect you, and he's perfecting you, and you're going to be in a place of from broken to unbreakable. You just have to rejoice through the process. You just have to rejoice through the process.