i have never given reincarnation much thought..... it isn't taught in the churches i attend.... and truthfully, i just haven't thought about it..... until about 3 months ago....
i met a 19 year old young man at the local YMCA last august.... and from the very beginning, there was this really really strange connection..... somehow, he went from teaching my kids to dive.... to babysitting for me... to becoming a member of our family.... literally.
and i found myself saying to my oldest, "it's like i've known him before"
and for the first time, i started thinking about reincarnation.
this kid is really a part of our family... my hubby and i refer to him as "our borrowed son"..... he eats dinner with us..... he shops with us.... he plays games with us.... he watches movies with us.... he just joined my hubby's martial arts class...and he goes on vacations with us....
when my oldest is trying to figure out whether or not she can do something.... she will say "well, Sam does it... so i can too".... and i just look at her... "Sam is not really your big brother, you know?"
this kid even looks like us... and strangers assume he is our son... he was goofing off at the bowling alley, and the lady yelled at him... then came over to me and apologized for yelling at him and explained why she did... like i was the mother??
sooo... this thread motivated me to look a few things up about reincarnation... which by no means makes me an expert an on it.... nor does it mean i believe in it.... but it does pose some really interesting thoughts....
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Dr. Weiss has also discovered that souls can share many lifetimes together (which is a subject that I still grapple with).
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this seems to be a theme in reincarnation.... they call them "soulmates"... not in a romantic sense.... but just souls that you keep getting incarnated with.... and they say it is often Parent/child....
just how Sam fits into our family has made me seriously wonder about reincarnation.... was this kid my son before? who knows....
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I always cringe a little when I read adoptive parents state that they “knew” their child was meant for them; that God meant for their child to be theirs. If that’s true, then it means that God meant for another set of parents to experience great loss; and that God meant for the child’s life to take a different and not always better path.
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we are adopting our youngest daughter.... and yes, i feel like i have the same "soulmate" connection with her... that i have with my other daughters.... that same, deep connection.... like she found us... and we found her... and now all is right in the world...
and just to throw it out there.... is it possible that when adoptee's and birthmothers are reunited and feel absolutely no connection.... that it just means there weren't any past lives together? and the adoptee grew up in the home with souls she had known before?
i don't know about any of this.... just thought i'd throw it out there for the sake of the discussion....