The quote says, “It takes a strong heart to love but, it takes a stronger heart to continue to love after the heart has been hurt.” That leads me to this question, “How difficult is it to love a person that has or is recovering from a broken heart?” Would you label a person like this Damaged GOODS!!!

I must say as a woman who can verbally speak on my hurt and pains as well as the wounds from past relationships, I have been referred to as, Damaged Goods. The slanderous words did not come from what they had seen or how I acted but from me opening my heart up to them to let them in. Yes, I am divorced and a single mom, that doesn’t make me spoiled from being a good mate. It sure makes it hard to be vulnerable when you reveal a softer side of you or a deeper part of you, and it is not well received…Some people find it hard to understand my tears because all they ever see is me smiling, working and encouraging others. To let someone who looks at you in great respect and seeing you as the strong, cheerful and outgoing Superwoman and then they find out you are just as human as they are. With many tests, tears and heartache and struggles, and that all power “BUT GOD” and “If it wasn’t for GOD” is what makes the contrast. It is as if to shatter their fantasy of you.  Then you are no more to them treasured but “Damaged Goods”

If we would be really honest with one another we are all imperfect with various blemishes. You or I may be more or less scarred than the next. But we are not without purpose or worth.

What one may call, Damaged Goods; I simply see as wounded merchandise. My value is not predicated on one’s interpretation of my wounds or my scars. My life and the events that fill it are unique to the gifting that God is growing in me. Since God is in me He can fix me! What you may see a weakness; God is making it a strength. So what you call damage, I call a place of purification, favor and good fortune designed by the creator to get the best out of me… Before you label me or discard me, take this in mind every defect you see in me is an attribute unique to where God wants to use me…The blemishes are just the battle scars of me holding on to the God in me while the world tried to take the life out of me. The brokenness in me you may find hard to grasp an understanding for was series of trials orchestrated to take the worst out of me so MY God could restructure more of Him in me. I was given a trial after trial only to come out jaded but destroyed. The events did not take me out. It was a designed to make me stronger for what was to come. Make me appreciate my blessings, which just may not be you! Because if it is my past wound that scares you then you don’t recognize the stamp of approval of my scars that say I have been TRIED TEST and found to be TRUE!

My God calls me Precious!!!

What some call in me damage My God is making it all new!!!