Making It on Broken Pieces
An upcoming message and gathering centered on purpose, healing, and perseverance for those rebuilding from broken places, marking the release of the book Not Built to Break, over a full lunch buffet.
Event Overview
A heartfelt gathering inspired by Not Built to Break, created to encourage healing, reflection, and renewed strength.
Join us for an intimate and uplifting event centered on Not Built to Break: Making It on Broken Pieces by Cynthia Dar'Lene Allen. This gathering invites honest conversation, storytelling, and reflection around resilience, faith, and moving forward through life's difficult seasons.
Together, we will explore how broken experiences can still lead to purpose, healing, and growth - and leave reminded that strength is often built in the very places where life tried to break us.
- A full lunch buffet
- Guided storytelling and honest reflection
- Warm, intimate, and welcoming atmosphere
- Open conversation rooted in faith and resilience
- Encouragement for life transitions and healing
- A reminder that strength grows in broken places
About the Author
Cynthia Dar'Lene Allen is a faith-driven writer whose work speaks to healing, endurance, and spiritual restoration.
Drawing from biblical truth and lived experience, she encourages readers to trust God through seasons of testing, transition, and renewal.
Her passion is helping others understand that brokenness does not disqualify them—rather, it can become the very place where faith is strengthened and purpose is revealed.
Through her writing, Cynthia offers hope to those learning how to stand again, reminding them that they were never built to break.
Personal Dedication
This book is dedicated to my parents, Robert and Julia Allen, for the hard work, unwavering dedication, and deep love they instilled in me and my nine siblings: my brothers Robert Jr., Eugene, Donell, Eddie Lee, Maurice, Alfred, Frank, John and my only sister Benita. Your sacrifices, values, and faith laid a foundation that continues to carry us forward.
To my children - Julius, Robin, India, Steven (Ray), Mia, Emmanuel, and Christian (CJ) - you are my heart, my motivation, and my greatest joy. And to my granddaughters Juliyah, E'Myah, Sa'Renitee and Khamia.
To my best friend of over forty years, Steven Robertson Sr. - thank you for standing with me through every season. For speaking strength when I felt weak, for reminding me of who I am when life tried to define me otherwise, and for encouraging me during my lowest moments that circumstances were never meant to break me. Your constant presence, honesty, and encouragement were instrumental in inspiring this book.
And to everyone carrying major struggles - those fighting battles seen and unseen, those rebuilding from broken pieces, and those learning how to stand again - This work is for you.
You were never built to break.
Prayer Dedication
Heavenly Father,
I place this work into Your hands.
May every word bring strength to the weary, peace to the hurting, and hope to those navigating difficult seasons. Let these pages remind each reader that You are near, faithful, and present in every chapter of life.
Cover those who read this book with Your peace. Guide them with wisdom, surround them with comfort, and remind them that even in broken places, You are still working and still building.
May this book serve as encouragement, healing, and reassurance that no test, no loss, and no season of pain is wasted in Your hands.
Amen.