Rise and Shine

There is sun above those clouds even if you can't see it right now.

Even if you don't know it, even if you don't feel like it right now, there is. In the middle of the storm, the sun still shines in the sky—

for you.

I know there are those days when you feel lost and sometimes you feel forgotten. You try, try, try and you try and yet, you keep coming up short. Your will to keep going is fading—and fast 'cause you keep wanting, but you don't have, you keep asking and you don't get yet all the while, you refuse to give up.

You endure.

We are socialized to be polished, we are conditioned to be polite. We are trained to put our game face on in the midst of our struggle and pretend that every little thing is alright; we pretend things are just fine.

However:

If you are like me then you have had a morning or two when you wake up and you can't imagine how you will make it through—this day. But, you resolve to go on no matter what. You get up and you gear up; you muster up the strength to give it your all and to face another day. And later on when you find yourself in the middle of it and you wonder out loud “How in the world? How in the world did I get here?”, you determine that,“As sure as there is a God, I will go through this fire and I will not get burned!” If you are like me, then there have been a few nights when you have quietly looked back over the day and it is then that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have earned the title—COURAGEOUS.

You endure.

You find the strength, you always do, to be strong and to smile and push through. When you are facing something so difficult that you have forgotten HOPE'S name and you wouldn't recognize HALF-A- CHANCE if it were staring you in the face—you stay strong then you've looked back and marveled at your ability to get through.