I’ve learned a million lessons along the way, some of those lessons came with great pain and some came easily, but the most important lesson is that it’s not about us.
It’s about the kids.
All about the kids.
The greatest blessing that came through this lesson is that our daughter gets to love on her siblings together. In her eyes they aren’t his children and my children, they’re her brothers and sisters, plain and simple. She deserves to get to have them all at one time. She deserves to smile and hug and kiss and love on them without boundaries and borders. And because we’ve learned the lesson, she benefits in the greatest way.
She gets her family, her one, big, family.
We are no longer legally bound to each other but there is a young lady who links us for life and because of her and all the generations that will come because of her, we will forever be coparents and, God willing, co-grandparents. Hopefully we can leave a legacy for our family and a lesson that broken things can be put back together, maybe not back to the way they started, but back to a way that is still beautiful. Hopefully we leave lessons of forgiveness, grace, and mercy and that when she faces the hard stuff in life she will have the strength and courage to stand firm in those lessons.
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This article originally appeared at CandiceCurry.com.
