I Thought I Was Broken

“I thought I was broken…

but I wasn’t.

I was just looking at myself through a shattered reflection.”

There was a time when every mistake felt like proof.

Proof that I wasn’t enough.

Proof that I kept getting it wrong.

Proof that maybe… I was the problem.

Every failure added another crack.

Not in me—

but in the way I saw myself.

And the more cracks there were,

the harder it became to see clearly.

When the Mirror Starts Lying

A broken mirror doesn’t stop reflecting...

It just stops reflecting truth.

Instead of seeing a whole person,

you start seeing fragments.

The parts you’re proud of get smaller.

The parts you regret get louder.

And the image staring back at you?

Distorted.

Sharp.

Unforgiving.

So you adjust.

You try harder.

Do more.

Be better.

Fix what you think is broken.

But no matter what you do…

the reflection doesn’t change.

Because the problem was never you.

It was the mirror.

The Moment Everything Shifted

At some point, I realized something that stopped me in my tracks:

I had been trusting the cracks more than the truth.

Let that sink in.

I was building my identity

on distorted reflections

created in moments of pain, failure, and fear.

And I was calling it reality.

But God doesn’t create broken reflections.

We just learn to see ourselves through them.

Through disappointment.

Through rejection.

Through the stories we tell when things don’t go the way we hoped.

And if we’re not careful,

we start living as if those stories are facts.

Healing Wasn’t What I Thought

I used to think healing meant fixing myself.

Working harder.

Doing better.

Becoming someone “more worthy” of the life I wanted.

But healing didn’t come from fixing who I was.

It came from seeing clearly again.

From stepping back and asking:

Is this actually true… or is this just what the cracks are showing me?

That question changes everything.

Because it separates

what you feel

from what is real.

You Were Never Broken

If you’ve been feeling like you’re not enough…

like you keep messing things up…

like you should be further along by now—

Pause for a second.

What if you’re not broken?

What if you’ve just been looking at yourself

through a shattered reflection?

Through past failures.

Through someone else’s words.

Through expectations you were never meant to carry.

What if the version of you that you’ve been judging…

isn’t even the real you?

A New Way Forward

You don’t need to keep analyzing every crack.

You don’t need to piece together every fragment.

And you definitely don’t need to keep proving your worth to a reflection that was never telling the truth in the first place.

You can choose something different.

You can step back.

You can get still.

You can begin to see yourself the way you were always meant to be seen.

Whole.

Worthy.

Unbroken.

The Truth

“I didn’t need to fix myself.

I needed a new mirror.”

If this hit something in you… sit with it for a minute.

Not everything you believe about yourself is truth.

Some of it is just a reflection shaped by moments that hurt.

And you don’t have to keep living from that place.

There is another way to see yourself.

And when you do… everything starts to change.