What If Your Starting Point Isn’t Brokenness, but Belovedness? Series -Week 1

Series: From Brokenness to Belovedness – Week 1

It’s easy to see ourselves through what needs fixing. What’s wrong. What’s missing. What could be better.

That was how I learned to live for years — quietly carrying the question underneath everything: “What’s wrong with me?”

Until one morning, while reflecting on the Garden of Eden and the idea that our bodies mirror God’s dwelling, I felt a gentle nudge in my spirit:

“What if your starting point isn’t your brokenness, but your belovedness?”

That line stopped me.

Because what if the foundation of your life isn’t something to repair, but something already good — something God called “very good” from the very beginning?

A soft sunrise over a dew-covered garden — symbolizing revelation and new beginnings

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In Genesis, before there was sin, there was blessing. Before there was failure, there was favor.

When God formed humanity, He didn’t sigh in disappointment; He smiled and called it very good. We were never meant to begin from shame — only from love.

But somewhere along the way, we traded that truth for performance. We learned to measure ourselves by what’s missing instead of what’s already present.

The world taught us to start from lack. God keeps inviting us to start from love.

A close-up of hands touching rich soil — representing connection to creation and the original blessing.

When I finally began to see myself through that lens — that I was already loved, already chosen, already enough — something shifted in how I treated my own body.

I stopped trying to fix myself to become holy. I started honoring the holiness that was already there.

That realization is what inspired Our Bodies as the Garden of Eden. Because our bodies were never meant to be structures of striving, but living spaces of belovedness.

The Garden was never about perfection; it was about presence.

Sunlight streaming through trees onto a quiet path — illustrating divine presence meeting humanity.

So today, before you try to improve, prove, or push — just pause. Take a breath.

What if you began from belovedness?

What if holiness isn’t what you achieve, but what you awaken to?

You are already loved. Already chosen. Already sacred ground.

🌿 Reflection

Take a moment today to simply say:

“I begin again, not from brokenness, but from belovedness.”

Let those words settle into your soil.

Heaven starts growing from there.

📖 Inspired by themes from my new book, Our Bodies as the Garden of Eden — discover how to live from wholeness, not striving.👉 nicholasbranchauthor.com

Infinite love and blessings,

Nicholas