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You can never go home again...but I guess you can shop there

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What's been the big win?  I would say seeing life from a different point of view.  Doesn't mean it's "blessed" in the traditional sense that a lot of pop culture Christians or churches would say it is.  In fact, it's probably the opposite of that, at times. Deconstruction of where you started with faith or belief can lead to a lot of things, including walking away from faith or belief in God.  But it also can and does include the option of throwing out what wasn't real or grounded in truth and re-sorting what you have kept in ways that align more closely with all that. From a lot of conversations and reading, I see that people who go through big things like divorce, loss from death of someone close, loss of health, lifestyle or identity, or other world-shaking kinds of things seem to grasp the idea most.  Probably because it is "forced" on to you and there's no "going back". Once you are spit out of what is known and comfortable, th...