You are most welcome.

It’s a lovely and painful thing to break and reshape Noel’s belief systems. What we believe is very much a part of who we are. When we share that belief with others, it’s community. When we impart those beliefs into behaviors, it creates what we know as culture.

Our families are built on many stones of those beliefs. Some of those sit so very embedded into community and culture that it is nigh painful to question, let alone walk another path.

Where you are is… where you are. It’s not bad or good. It is where you are.

From what is both beautiful and terrifying about this for you, I’m sure others will find avenues for themselves to grow in their own faith, and influence their communities and cultures.

To quote a younger version of me, “keep growing forward.”