Watch Me Build Peace
- Tony Moen
- Feb 2
- 2 min read
🔥🙏 Watch me build peace from the ashes of everything that meant to burn me. 🙏🔥
This is a declaration, not of empty platitudes, but of fury and fierce devotion to my own inner truth and brilliant flame.
There are seasons of emotional drought, where life doesn’t gently teach us through the flowing rivers of understanding and care...it scorches and singes. Systems and institutions that we trusted so deeply in, begin to fall apart. Identities we wore so comfortably stop fitting. Beliefs, relationships, and even versions of ourselves collapse into nothing more than the remnants of smoke and debris. In the aftermath, we’re left with a choice that no one can make for us. Do we harden into the soil, or do we build toward the sky once more?
Peace forged after loss is different than that which comes from ease...it is conscious, accountable, and earned. It knows what destruction feels like and still chooses creation. It doesn’t deny anger or grief; it integrates them into the experience. Ash becomes nourishment for the soil, pain becomes the water that is essential, and survival becomes the surface by which your seedling pushes through the dark out of.
Building peace from pain is an act of power. It’s choosing not to replicate the harm that shaped you. It’s learning how to sit with the fire long enough to understand it, and then stepping forward anyway, carrying from it wisdom rather than scorched wounds.
This is not any level of passive work or subtle observation. It is discipline and devotion the likes of which you have never committed to before. It requires honesty, accountability, boundaries, and compassion, especially with yourself. This is how cycles really end, within the sanctity of self-love and external appreciation.
Nobody who is committed to misunderstanding you gets to decide what you become. Only you do. Peace built from alignment with your true potential doesn’t just protect your energy and growth, it changes what you pass on to others, and what kinds of people you allow yourself to exchange energy and time with.
🪬💙🙏
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