They lied when they said that the past doesn't define you.
They lied when they said that the past doesn't define you. Of course it defines you. You are a compilation of all of your pain, all of your difficulties, all of your trials, all of the mistakes and all of the loss you've experienced up until now. You are also a child of God. For that reason I remember, sitting in an interview with an ecclesiastical leader I was presented with a question that changed the way I see myself. He said, "What would you be; without the sexual, physical, and emotional abuse that you use as shields... without the mistakes and fears that you use as masks... without the racism, judgement and mocking you hold as a torch? What would be left behind without all of that?" The answer was simple. A daughter of God. To some that may mean nothing. To me it meant that I was not my pain. I was simply a person that learned how to love their companion so deeply that I endured the darkest of hells while waking that I coul...
