One word, FREEDOM! That's my silver lining.
Free to say what I want to say, be who I want to be, go where I want to go, do what I want to do, wear what I want to wear, be with whom I choose to be with, eat, drink, smoke what I want to eat, drink or smoke or not. You get the picture.....I'm free of all the crap that used to weigh me down trying to do what a religion and it's members said I needed to do, now I'm busy being a human being instead of a human doing.