“Hope is tough. It’s tougher to be uncertain than certain. It’s tougher to take chances than to be safe. And so hope is often seen as weakness, because it’s vulnerable, but it takes strength to enter into that vulnerability of being open to the possibilities.”

demonstrate the courage to follow up after anything that was uncomfortable;

I hope that instead of wondering and worrying how you will ever move forward, you can simply recall all the other times you feared you never would…and did. You can remember that you never would have imagined exactly what led you to most good things in your life, and I hope that will inspire you to keep your heart open to wonder, to mystery, to the