{"id":9972,"date":"2015-05-15T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T03:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2016-06-26T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T02:31:31","slug":"beautiful-broken-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-things\/beautiful-broken-things\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beautiful Broken Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They catch the light differently &#8230; beautiful broken things &#8230;musing &#8220;reflections&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/white-mirror-546x900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/white-mirror-546x900.jpg\" alt=\"white-mirror-546x900\" width=\"546\" height=\"900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9998\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/white-mirror-546x900.jpg 546w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/white-mirror-546x900-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a>&#8211; Zane Lewis, Shatter Painting Collection &#8230;<br \/>\n*************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a rest in brokenness. You lie on that hard ground, unable to function as you did before. So you lie there.  There are no more &#8220;should s&#8221; because the luxury of self-recrimination was taken from you when you fell and broke into pieces of the earth below.  &#8220;Cannot&#8221; doesn&#8217;t matter now, either.  All that exists in this moment is &#8220;What is Now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This.<\/p>\n<p>And there is beauty in the brokenness.  It is a beauty of constellations in the scars,<br \/>\nof tides in the tears, the heat of fire in the bleeding of you.<br \/>\nIn the abrupt quiet that follows and unexpected injury, a sacred silence fills you.<br \/>\nAnd because there is nothing left in you that can create, push, force, be, or drive into,<br \/>\nthere is a blessed empty space, to be filled by something other than all the crazed and busy thinking, the manic achieving, and the over-scheduled hours.  <\/p>\n<p>This blessed, beautiful brokenness is the prayer that summons the spirit, calls forth the angles, lays us down gently.<br \/>\nIn these seasons of humble brokenness, we are opened, utterly.  There is not protecting yourself here.<br \/>\nThis is the stripping way of ego-driven, striving conception.  <\/p>\n<p>Let there be grace.<br \/>\nLet there be mercy.<br \/>\nAllow the broken places to show you their beautiful rest.<\/p>\n<p>The broken stick on the forest floor is the branch who earned her rest.  I bless the stick.  I bless the branch.  I bless the rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Sarah LaRosa<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/forest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/forest.jpg\" alt=\"forest\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/forest.jpg 480w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/forest-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/forest-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWith humility, allow the healing to take place &#8230;broken pieces will come together again &#8230; Here, take my hand &#8211; let me help you up&#8230; Then, moving onward you go, all fixed.<br \/>\nYes, repaired, fixed, renewed &#8230; like magic, no longer broken.<br \/>\nNo longer fragile&#8230; but strong and steady.<br \/>\nNow Fixed and whole, beautiful; Before shattered and broken, but you know, beautiful still, yes &#8230; fragile but strangely beautiful<br \/>\nbecause &#8230; it&#8217;s not the physical that you see throbbing with pain<br \/>\nbut its what you cannot see that&#8217;s glowing and beautiful.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6512.jpg\" alt=\"sm_IMG_6512\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9975\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6512.jpg 375w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6512-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s true &#8230; realizing there&#8217;s beauty in broken things.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6520.jpg\" alt=\"sm_IMG_6520\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9977\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6520.jpg 500w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6520-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm_IMG_6520-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Finding balance on the wobbly drift wood and sticks and stepping stones &#8230; crossing the river &#8230; healing sounds of flowing water engulfs you.  Energy of healing for the broken on the mend, reaching to the cellular level, one reclaims her true essence.  Breathe in &#8211; forest fresh energy; Breathe out &#8211; sayonara to the stale and the toxic.  Pause. Rest. Then&#8230; Meditate. When you come out of it &#8211; you will have it back &#8211; the clarity, the sparkles, the light, the smile, the original &#8220;you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bathing in the forest, rediscovering how beautiful the &#8220;broken&#8221; imperfect things are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They catch the light differently &#8230; beautiful broken things &#8230;musing &#8220;reflections&#8221;&#8230; &#8211; Zane Lewis, Shatter Painting Collection &#8230; ************************************************************************************************* There is a rest in brokenness. You lie on that hard ground, unable to function as you did before. So you lie there. 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