Some time ago I was watching a movie about a girl who was given up for adoption. When the girl (now seventeen years old) finds out she was adopted, she sets out to find her birth mother.
When she finally finds her birth mother and confronts her, the mother lies, and says, “I never had children,” completely denying her. The girl, now overwhelmed with feelings of abandonment, is devastated and asks, “Why doesn’t she want me?” A long-time friend, who is an older and very wise woman, responds to her questions: “The miracle is not the life you missed …the miracle is the life you got.”
We have all felt life’s devastating circumstances, and sometimes, it causes us to become bitter. Too often these circumstances can consume our lives and deprive us of happiness and of living life to our true potential.
As the movie progresses, the teenage girl returns to her mother’s office, who is a successful attorney, and she leaves a note with the secretary. When the mother arrives at the office, she receives the note and sits at her desk to read it. When the writing is revealed it reads, “I forgive you,” and the mother begins to weep in regret.
Don’t waste your life in anger and resentment wondering why things happened to you…that is not your purpose in life…God has an awesome plan for you…Find it…Live your life to the fullest. “The miracle is the life you got.”
I love this thought! Thank you for sharing it,
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