We all carry chapters in our lives that we wish we could tear out of the book. For a long time, I looked at my dark childhood, my turbulent mental health struggles, and the heavy files from court dockets, medical histories, and survival loops as stains I needed to hide. I thought healing meant pretending those years didn't happen, or wishing I had been built differently.
But true healing—the kind God offers us—doesn't require us to erase our history. It requires us to surrender it.
Your past isn't a graveyard; it is the very soil where deep, unshakeable gratitude grows. If I hadn't navigated a toxic, broken home, I wouldn't know the true, aching value of the peace, safety, and family I have today. Pain stretches our capacity for appreciation. It teaches us to recognize grace when it finally arrives.
Innocence, Genesis, and a Broken World
When we look at the world, it's easy to wonder how things got so fractured. Society is so quick to point fingers at Eve for eating the apple from the tree and talking with the serpent. But we forget: Adam and Eve lived in a perfect world without lies, manipulation, or hidden motives.
They started out in pure, unblemished innocence—and we all start out that very same way.
You didn't choose the brokenness you inherited, and you didn't ask for the early storms that tested your foundation. This fallen world is not God's ultimate design. Yet, even when life feels chaotic and uncertain, I firmly believe that God works all things together for the greater good.
Welcome to the
Pillar 3: Rewriting the Narrative (Trauma, Genesis, & Unshaming the Past)
Join me in this new blog series where I unlearn the shame of the past, trade control for absolute surrender, and discover that the victory is found not in defending our story, but in resting safely in the unchanging truth of God.