HOPE

...And when the wind blows, blows hard enough to take you off your feet, you shine. You shine and you shine and you keep shining until, no matter how hard that wind blows, it won't blow out your flame. Because, in the dark, someone must shine and it must be you. It must be you because you should, because you can. It must be you because sometimes it is only you. It must be you so that good is not wasted on the wind or in the wind. It must be you because one day your shine will be seen by someone else lost in the wind. Someone looking for light. Someone looking to see out of the storm and for proof that somewhere, somehow, someone did shine when the wind said they could not.

Just because we say goodbye to this Hope, does not mean we say goodbye to hope altogether. If we save just one, it will be worth it.

-Mrs. Hadley