Joy of Destruction

The past two years have been a major shift for me and I have chosen to actively surrender to it rather than resist it. Life has a way of snatching everything from under you when it is time for a major shift. Your life is torn down and disrupted in order to rebuild it in a way that is more congruent with who you are becoming and the future that lies ahead of you. The joy of destruction is that it sometimes has to snatch everything from under you because you do not have a loose enough grip and attachment to let go on your own. Although it causes internal turmoil and emotional pain as you process all that seems to be “suddenly” happening, the beautiful part is that it is simply your prayers being answered or aligning to the intentions you set. There are prayers that require destruction or the metaphorical death of something before the answered prayer can fully come to fruition. Destruction can range from the tearing down of your self-sabotaging habits to relationships falling apart. Revisit your prayers and intentions to pick up on the correlation between what you are asking for versus what is clearing out to make way for it.

Destruction is an agent of change that breaks down the current structure of a thing to clear the path for new beginnings. To find joy in destruction is to be grateful for the things that no longer align with your life to finally make an exit and make space for you to receive. To find joy in destruction is to not resist the process of the breakdown, but instead start rejoicing in anticipation of the rebuilding that is about to take place. To find joy in destruction is to trust the plan God has for your life and that He takes away to replace it with better. To find joy in destruction is to know you are resilient beyond measure to endure the process because you are not new to the experience, but have preserved through destruction before. Every major shift will cost you something, will challenge and stretch you, and will also parallel with internal uprooting to prepare you. I encourage you to look for the joy in the midst of destruction and to be grounded in self-trust, knowing you are equipped to make it to the other side. 

Joy Gem: “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” - Abraham Maslow