Before getting into our discussion, I wanted to give a shout-out to my friend Wes Hampton.

• He and his family were over this past 4th of July weekend and we had a lot of fun grilling and watching the kids play.
• Wes also has a Kamado Joe (plus his own cookbook), so we had a great cooking discussion.
• Find Wes on Facebook or head over to WesHampton.com, and you can find his recipes there.

This week’s topic comes from a pastor who sometimes works with victims of sexual abuse, and what “accepting responsibility” would look like in this situation. One of the women he works with started reading The Traveler’s Gift and closed the book when she read to accept responsibility for your past.

Life is a series of advancing what we understand, or we kind of stop in a certain place and say, “That’s it.”

• There was a time in most people’s lives when they had not acquired a taste for certain types of food.
• If I had a chance to talk to her before she read The Traveler’s Gift, I would say, “Read the book with the same mind-set as you would have going into a cafeteria.”
• They might have a lot of things you like, but you don’t leave when you see something you won’t eat.

Accepting responsibility for our past also means determining what we are responsible for.

• The things we are not responsible for would certainly fall more into the forgiveness category.
• At the age of 9, you would really have no choice if an adult imposed something on you.
• I know this is a delicate situation and I don’t know all the circumstances, so this is more of just exploring ideas, but I do feel there is a certain age when responsibility to get yourself out of a situation falls somewhat to you.

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