Who I Am Transcends My Story And My Circumstance

It is often easy to define ourselves by our recent choices and our current circumstances.

Who we are transcends these things and today we are going tap to remind ourselves of that fact.

Who I am transcends my story and my circumstance.
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Everything that has come before now…Informs this moment…It informs my circumstances…It has taught me about the world…It has helped to create my expectations of how things work…It has helped to create the expectations of what I think will come next…It has even helped to create the expectations that others have of me…But regardless what became before this moment…Regardless of the circumstances I am in…Regardless of the choices I have made in the past…No matter how many times I have made those same choices…This is a new moment…This is a new opportunity to choose…This is a new opportunity to decide what comes next…And I can’t ignore my circumstances…And I can’t deny responsibility for my past choices…But taking my responsibility for the past…And honestly assessing where I am…Does not mean I’m stuck in the same old patterns…And does not mean that I’m stuck in the same old ways…This is a new moment…This is a new time…And I have the opportunity…To re-create myself…To make new choices…To go at this in a new way…My experience informs me on how I see the world…My past choices inform the circumstances that I’m currently in…But these things do not define me…These are not who I am…This is only what has come before…Knowing in this moment I get to choose again…And I get to choose anew.