Essay On Spiritual Wellness

Spiritual Wellness
The testimony of my life is not as normal as others . My life has been full of events that could be use in a movie or a reality TV show. My childhood was different from others because when I was four years of age I was kidnapped by my dad and stepmother. My father hid me in his ranch until I was seven years old, I often wondered why we didn’t go out past this ranch, but I never dared to ask growing up. Now I know it was not normal that we seldom visited relatives and the few that we did that It was not right that I would have to be sent to a room when certain family members would come by. It was not until I turned eight that I met my stepmother’s mom. When my father had to register me in school, I was only allowed to take the bus to school and go back home right away after school. I didn’t see my biological mother until I was nine years of age, when she approached me I asked who she was, and she responded “I am your mother”. She came close to me trying to hug and kiss me, but I rejected her hugs and kisses. There was a lot of resentment …show more content…
What scares me the most is getting hurt over and over by the same person. Many people have hurt my feelings more than once during my adulthood and sometimes it’s hard to forgive right away. I have gone to different religious retreats to work on those challenges and seek to grow in my knowledge of God and ask myself how He would respond if He was in my place. It’s easy to say I would like to be like Jesus but I have to say it’s not easy at all to follow in his steps. I am not seeking to become more like Jesus in my attitudes because my challenge person,mother-in-law, lives in my house and I often can’t handle her presence, although I am working hard on being able to see Jesus through her. Her actions are the opposite of what Jesus will say and do. I know I’m supposed to love my enemies too and pray for them just like Jesus did but for now I