From My Heart to Yours by Robin McGraw

Author:Robin McGraw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

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YOU’RE NOT BETRAYING YOUR PARENTS BY LIVING YOUR LIFE DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY LIVED THEIRS; IN FACT, WHAT YOU’RE DOING IS BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF.

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The concept of redefining your legacy is something I am passionate about, especially when it comes to women, many of whom are merely existing inside lives they neither chose nor contemplated. So many of us have dutifully reproduced our mother’s or father’s behaviors, duplicating our parents’ patterns and manifesting a legacy that we, however unconsciously, feel obligated to fulfill.

I want you to know you have a choice: you do not have to haul your parents’ legacy into your life like that old dining room set your great aunt left for you in her will. If it makes you happy to eat at that table and sit in those chairs, by all means keep them. But if it doesn’t, remember: you have options. You can hold on to the table and toss the chairs. Or lose the table and keep the chairs (perhaps reupholster the seats so they’re more comfortable). And if you just plain hate the whole thing, get rid of it before you bring it into the house.

Just as your great aunt’s furniture might not suit your dining room, your parents’ ways of living might not suit your life. You’re not insulting your dead aunt by rejecting her old furniture, and you’re not betraying your parents by living your life differently than they lived theirs; in fact, what you’re doing is being true to yourself. I believe in the core of my being that you don’t have to bring into your life anything that isn’t working for you, nor are you fated to live out a future you had no part in creating. Each of us possesses the will to create our own legacy. It’s all a choice.

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