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I've been thinking lately about what it takes to make a life meaningful.Â
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There are many components:
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Relationships.
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Purpose.
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Love.
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Service.
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Working hard at work worth pursuing.
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I believe that one component to a meaningful life is the story we tell ourselves about it---
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past, present, and future.
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How do we view our childhood?
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What about our marriage?
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What story do we tell about the pursuit of our goals and dreams?
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Did you know that you get to write your story?
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Let me give a small example:
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My young family of 6 has moved several times since Ryan and I married 13 years ago and he started medical training.
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11 times to be exact.Â
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We've lived in 6 different states.Â
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It might be easy to assume that this has been really hard on our family.Â
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That our children have suffered from being uprooted multiple times.Â
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That their lives lack stability.
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No chance to make lasting friendships.
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No roots anywhere.
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But I decided a few years ago that I was going to tell a different story--
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an empowering one:
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Aren't we lucky to have been able to live all over the country?
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We have friends in just about every corner of the nation.
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My children have been able to experience life in the South, the West, the Midwest, and the East Coast.
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We have lived in big cities and teeny tiny towns.
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Rubbed shoulders with some amazing people.
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Experienced diversity at church, school, and within our communities.
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My children have had the great opportunity to make friends with people that come from backgrounds that are vastly different than their own.
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What an opportunity and blessing.
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We have lived in Red states, Blue states, and Purple states.Â
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It has been a great adventure.Â
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Some might say that I'm just delusional.
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Not seeing life for what it really is.
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Sugar-coating it.Â
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But when you think about it,Â
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isn't it a delusion either way?Â
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Now I'm not saying it has been all sunshine and roses.Â
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But I like to believe that everything my family has experienced has been for our good.
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All of it.Â
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Like Gabriel Bernstein puts it,Â
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The Universe has Our Back.Â
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Our life is really just made up of the stories we tell ourselves.Â
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And I want my story to be an empowering one.Â
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I don't know what our future will look like,Â
but I KNOWÂ that it will be a great adventure.Â
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What part of your story are you willing to rewrite?Â
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