Connection...the Continuing Adventure of Family

 

"The brochure is a lie."

"We may eventually learn that what's most important in this life is not overcoming weaknesses, but learning to love those who have them.  It's the relationships that matter."

          Joseph Grenny

"I believe people come into our lives as a blessing or a lesson, and it's up to us to figure out which is which."

                                                                                              From the movie "Mrs. Miracle"

                                                      

I am the Prodigal.  The lost Sheep.  But I was found...in more ways than one.  I came to myself, but only after I was stopped in my tracks as I tried to not just wander off, as sheep tend to do, but to run off and leave my life behind.  During the past nine years, since the day I "came to myself" and began a recovery journey I could never have had imagined, and that I'm still traveling, one of the greatest miracles was finding my birth family and knowing I was one of ten children!

You may remember I wrote about that experience, and how it came to be, in a post dated October 10, 2021, over four years ago, entitled "Connection...and Family."  In that post, I write about how important connection with other people is to recovery, and the story of how I was prompted to find my birth family, and the miracle of that connection.

Well, nor there's more to the story!