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The Power of Faith and Hope
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
~Desmond Tutu
I don’t remember when I started to share my personal stories but I know why. I wanted to give people hope. I wanted them to know that in the depth of their pain there was light at the end of the tunnel. I shared my personal challenges to show them that there were gifts in each trauma and loss and you would discover more about yourself. I wanted to shine a light so they could see the path. I wanted them to know that other people had survived and thrived and found joy again.
I know that reading stories by women and men helped me feel grief and loss and that in the midst of that I would also feel joy, sometimes.
Faith
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. ~Saint Augustine
The hardest challenge I ever had to face was leaving my first marriage and leaving my children behind. I knew I had to get out and give myself some oxygen. To rent a house and get beds and some furniture to have a place for us to live. I knew my husband could care for them for two weeks. It never occurred to me that he would fight for full custody. He had barely changed a diaper, cooked a meal, done laundry or been present during the evening routine of meal…
