Out of the Pit set free

For a long time after I found out the truth about my family identity it took courage to share my story.

I was believed a lie that if I told my story

I would be thought of differently by people.

I was exposing the well hidden secret of my beginnings.

I would disgrace my family.

I didn't have the right to share my story.

My beginnings was digging up someone else's past.

I found out my truth and it was freeing to me.

I had to sort out my feelings about my truth.

Unfortunately I took on my families secret and my mother's shame.

I couldn't let the real me out.

My mother wanted her privacy.

I did my best to appease my mother and my mom. Mom was held bound by secrecy.

Inside I felt restless inside. I looked around to make sure nothing happened.

I feared the consequences of telling my story.

Fear held me in a pit. The fear grew deeper when I attempted to tell the story.

FEAR FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARS TO BE REAL

My mother had me convinced that it was not my story to tell.

Lies

I would hold back from telling my story.

I held back parts of my story.

I had been warned not to tell my sister. Stay away from family.

This went on for 10 years.

I was angry about the truth being held back from me.

Gradually bits of truth began to free me from the pit of secrecy.

My previous life and adoption is part of who I am.

I can tell my story because it is about me.

I had not promised my mother that I would keep my story a secret.

My healing came in spurts.

I managed to shed off the old self and come out of hiding.

I found that God identified me as his daughter.

A child of the King.

I began to take down the walls that held me captured.

I contacted my sister.

I went slow.

I decided to smash the idea that my beginnings were a secret.

I made a choice to let my sister in on my

Identity.

Wow

I completed 2 books.

Perfect love drives out all fear.

Today I shared how Jesus set me free from the shame of my story.

I have opened up this part of my life.

Satan had me bound but

Jesus has set me free

I am no longer a slave to fear

I am a child of God.

I choose to be better not bitter!

Margaret Etcher Theriault