Rise: The Coming of a New Day

Rise: The Coming of a New Day

  I run around the lake sun peaking over the horizon. And I feel it. Life. My body stays in motion as I round the water. The fine mist of dawn takes on glimmers of gold. It’s the promise. Every morning a sunrise. The great hope of Day. I breathe in and out....
Do You Have the Courage?

Do You Have the Courage?

May is an all-together unique month.Growing up it was the exciting month of my birthday.It was also the time of ‘May flowers’. Of lacrosse championships, and yes, disappointing losses. It was the month of awards banquets and another school year ending.Then...
Hope Is Born In Darkness

Hope Is Born In Darkness

Like a newborn baby, skin so soft, eyes so wide open or in precious slumber, hair silky from a fresh bath, swaddled in cotton–I awoke to life, to a New Day. It was just after three days unable to breathe, unable to do for myself. I was in a cocoon of unknown.Hope is a...