beauty — Blog — Tabitha Deller

The Beauty of Becoming…

One day you will be older and wiser, and yet not that long ago, you were young hungry.

I’m not sure what’s best, but I think it’s probably best to learn from both.

Biblically, they both have place and purpose in the family of God, and they both can be used powerfully by God to further His Kingdom.

“Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.” ~ 1 Timothy‬ ‭4:12‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” ~ Titus‬ ‭2:3-5‬ ‭ESV‬‬

So learn and grow older and wiser, but keep growing and learning as you stay young and hungry.

Grow in maturity, and as you grow more mature, always be open to learning more. Never think you’ve arrived. Always be teachable, because when you are, others are more reachable.

Embrace the age you are now. Celebrate where you’ve been. Anticipate where you’re headed. It’s a wildly beautiful process.

We experience the best of both worlds when we learn to live in the tension of the two, and then live to learn from the tension of the two. Don’t despise the one you’re not yet and don’t neglect the one you once were.

Step into multigenerational spaces. No matter your age or life stage, always have someone older and wiser pour into you, so you can overflow and pour into someone that’s young and hungry.

Live to grow. Grow to live. At every age and life stage.

“Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.” ~ Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3‬:‭11‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Mosaics are made of broken pieces, and broken pieces make beautiful masterpieces.

An artist friend recently shared a reel about a mosaic she’d been working on this summer. Like most mosaics, this piece required a lot of work — breaking plates and placing tiles, grouting and scraping — hours upon hours of painstaking precision. Victoria’s words in her reel may resonate with you and where you are and how you feel, too.

An author friend reached out today with a little life update, and what caught my eye and captured my heart, even more than the vulnerable words she wrote, was the beautiful smile she wore in a picture she shared of herself sitting in the center of a mosaic staircase. That picture gave life to these words she shared…

“Sometimes the journey to a sincere smile begins with a thousand sad steps.” — Wendy Speake

Mosaics are made of broken pieces, and broken pieces make more beautiful masterpieces.

Like my artist friend and author friend, you, dear friend, are a masterpiece, too — a painstakingly beautiful masterpiece.

I used to be intimidated by the word "painstaking" because I feared the "pain" the word implied and the work it would "take" to get to the other side. After taking a moment to look it up, God used the definition to calm my anxiety about the sound of the word and see the beauty in its meaning. Painstaking, by definition, means "done with or employing great care and thoroughness."

Yes, friend, you are a masterpiece. God's great care and thoroughness is evident in your life. Your brokenness and pain are the bits and pieces that shape your beauty and purpose.

Mosaics are made of broken pieces, and broken pieces make the most beautiful masterpieces.