In Reply to: alrightee posted by damaged on October 21, 2006 at 22:18:16:
I'm glad we came to a point of understanding. As I said there is always hope. As far as things we went through in our past there are probably great differences but also the common factor that we were both part of a destructive cult, and are no longer part of a desructive cult. That is an element of great hope and assurance that things are better and not what they used to be. For myself my past has become a part of my ministry and certainly an unusual educational element of it. I've come to look on my close to 30 years associated with TF as something that is unique among people I encounter. I share my story with people I work with, people in my church, and at my school though just talking and also through many papers I've done on a variety of subjects. I refuse to let it be a time of regret, as looking at it on the surface one could say you wasted all those years of your life. At the age of 52 after recovering from the treatment for Hep. C I decided to complely change life direction, go to university, (which I never did when I was young), and seek a degree in Church Leadership. As part of the adult education program I am involved in, I had to do like a chronlogical year by year snapshot of what I had done since I graduated from high school. After reading mine my professor made a comment that has stuck with me, and gives a summation of where I am in my life now. She wished me well and to have sucess in my 2nd adulthood. I can testify things are awsome in my 2nd adult hood. I am incredibly busy, incredibly happy, and incredibly fulfilled. I didn't mean to be long winded here but all of this to say that the past is the past, the future is the future and is bright with all it has waiting for us.