Insight, Meditations and Reflections

Sarah Culberson's story is a metaphor of our lives. Sarah was given up for adoption to a loving West Virginia couple when she was about a year old.

"I was placed with angels," Sarah says of her adoptive parents and two older sisters in an interview she gave to Barbara Turnbull of the Toronto Star .

"When I look at it now, I see what a huge blessing and gift it was to have my dad stay up with me hours at night with homework, making a toothpick giraffe for a class, reading Shakespeare with me," she says.

But because she looked different (her mother was white and her father is black) she never very well accepted who she was when she was growing up. She over-compensated to gain acceptance.

Then she discovered four years ago that her father is alive in Africa, a king of his village. Joseph Konia Kposowa invited his daughter to Sierra Leone where the entire village gave her a big welcome. Now she knows that she not only has a home she is also a princess.

Sarah's story makes me think of our lot as human beings. Most of us struggle about our human condition. We work so hard to make our lives worthy and acceptable to society and to others. Yet, like Sarah, when we find out who we truly are, we will have a better sense of our worth. We are spirits living in human bodies. We are heirs and heiresses to the Kingdom within.

Sarah is an actress starring in TV films like "In Case of Emergency" (2007),  "Boston Legal" (2006) and "Deep End of the Poole" (2006). Sarah's career is going to pick up because with self-knowledge comes the strength to overcome limits. This is a promise that awaits us as we really understand who we truly are.

Read The Star Article:

Sierra Leone village welcomed her `home'