I rented a movie called The Shunning. A 20 year old Amish girl discovers she was adopted from an "English" teenager. She begins to understand some of the internal conflict she has been feeling - a strong desire to create music, and, while deeply loving her family, a sense that she does not want the life before her.
She goes to an elderly woman in their community and laments not knowing who she really is. The woman fairly shouts, "Who you really are?" She then proceeds to remind her exactly who she is and how she has been known and loved by the people in her life. Then she tells her to go - to find her birth mother if she can, to see the world if she must. She cautions her, "Don't go thinking you'll find something out there that you don't have here. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE LIFE YOU MISSED - IT'S ABOUT THE LIFE YOU HAVE."
In my work I hear about loss, regret (yes, I have a few of my own too), anger, disappointment, and "what if" or "what might have been". By God's grace I have been given a second chance. I am committed to step away from all that and live in the great and glorious NOW. I am missing nothing.I love and cherish the life I have. Amen.
Blessings,
Beth
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