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<blockquote data-quote="Tanya M" data-source="post: 667031" data-attributes="member: 18516"><p>The world has had horrific problems for thousands of years; The Israelites fleeing Pharaoh and Egypt, the Jews who were sent to the camps during World War II, The war and genocide in Darfur, The famine in Ethiopia, and on and on. I stay very current on what is going on in the world and the current plight of the Syrian refugee's. Our own current news today reported the body parts of a three year old being found in a lagoon. </p><p>The current and future conditions of this world are not lost on me and it is because I am a survivor that I am able to have empathy not sympathy for people. We are all born into circumstances beyond our control and we each have within us the power to overcome.</p><p>I did not ask to be sexually and physically abused by my bio-father, nor did I ask to be stricken with cancer and numerous other things that have happened to me in my life. I wish years ago that someone would have offered me a glimpse of a positive affirmation as it may have set me on a path of healing much sooner.</p><p>I think it is so important to be able to offer hope to those who are in the darkest of places. I want to invite that conversation, for someone to ask, how is it that you can be so positive in the midst of darkness, to be able to share with someone that yes, you can overcome the most horrific things in life, that you can be a survivor.</p><p>Light will always pierce darkness and I am trying to be a light in this world, to offer a glimmer of hope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanya M, post: 667031, member: 18516"] The world has had horrific problems for thousands of years; The Israelites fleeing Pharaoh and Egypt, the Jews who were sent to the camps during World War II, The war and genocide in Darfur, The famine in Ethiopia, and on and on. I stay very current on what is going on in the world and the current plight of the Syrian refugee's. Our own current news today reported the body parts of a three year old being found in a lagoon. The current and future conditions of this world are not lost on me and it is because I am a survivor that I am able to have empathy not sympathy for people. We are all born into circumstances beyond our control and we each have within us the power to overcome. I did not ask to be sexually and physically abused by my bio-father, nor did I ask to be stricken with cancer and numerous other things that have happened to me in my life. I wish years ago that someone would have offered me a glimpse of a positive affirmation as it may have set me on a path of healing much sooner. I think it is so important to be able to offer hope to those who are in the darkest of places. I want to invite that conversation, for someone to ask, how is it that you can be so positive in the midst of darkness, to be able to share with someone that yes, you can overcome the most horrific things in life, that you can be a survivor. Light will always pierce darkness and I am trying to be a light in this world, to offer a glimmer of hope. [/QUOTE]
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