Imagine a large dog in a traveling crate
stalled at a railway station. He’d chewed the tag off his crate, and no
one knew his destination. I knew an 8-year-old named Lynn who felt like
that when her adoptive parents abandoned her. “What’s wrong with me?”
she wondered. “If I’ve been bad, who will want me?”
Many
of us know that feeling, too, when we or life’s circumstances chew the
tags off our traveling crates, halting our life’s journey. We don’t
know where we’re going so we sit trapped, asking those same questions.
Lynn soon was blessed with new adoptive parents who told her they were now her “forever” family.
Still,
she wondered, “Will they keep me? How bad do I have to be before they
leave me like my other parents did?” So she tested them. Challenging is
a mild term to describe her behavior. But her parents persevered, and
the three became a family.
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