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The Quilt of My Life Has a Patch Named Ruth
Imagine, if you will that your life consists of a series of events and occurrences that work in unison and combination to help you become the person you are meant to be.
Imagine, if you will that your life consists of a series of events and occurrences that work in unison and combination to help you become the person you are meant to be. You have choice and agency in much of what occurs, while other events are out of your control. For example, I chose to return to college at age 30 to earn a teaching credential so that I could have a life experience around teaching school. Seven years later I did not have the choice to avoid the life experience of having Stage 3 breast cancer almost take my life.
Beginning with the precept that we may choose some experiences while having to accept others leads to the belief that we may shift our focus to the experiences that are more joyous and positive to enhance our overall life experience. Now I want you to take what I consider to be the logical next step in your journey. I refer to this as the “quilt of my life” and it is made up of many patches.
Thinking back over my life is similar to the process of going through a box of photographs. I can visualize in three dimensional vividness exactly where I was and who I was with at the moment each photo was taken. Sometimes I was the one…
