Are you in a season of breaking?

Are you in a season of breaking?  Maybe it was a rupture, a huge and instantaneous cracking open that shocked you to your core. Maybe it’s a jagged breaking so glacially slow that it has filled you with ice, almost but not quite hiding the scar.  Maybe it’s a steady, consistent tapping that threatens to crumble you.  

Seasons of breaking are vulnerable and exposing. But in these moments, we might just be open enough to let nature teach us a very valuable lesson. Are you open? 

Everything in nature breaks exactly the same way. Scientists recently discovered this lesson.  Whether smashed open quickly or slowly crushed or tapped until broken open, everything breaks in exactly the same pattern of big pieces to little pieces.  “Regardless of the material or the force used, the force itself geometrically divides any space in the same way,” says scientist Emmanuel Villermaux.  Even the surface of a bubble. 

Can you hear it?  Nature is telling you that you are not alone. Everyone breaks, but we are not disconnected or  isolated in our breaking. We all break, but in an intimately connected way.  

You are not alone.