Look for it.

Hope.

Look for it.

An optimistic state of mind.

Look for it.

An expectation of a positive outcome.

See it.

Feel it.

Hold it in your mind's eye.

Cradle it in your heart.

Never an easy task.

Especially when coping with cancer.

Victim?

Easier.

Why did this happen to me?

Easier.

Look for hope?

Harder.

Can seem impossible.

Never judge the easier way.

It's the path I took.

Until I realized that path led me nowhere.

Did me no good.

How would that path cultivate my ability to inspire others?

To help me grow as a person?

Everything that happens to me is an opportunity to follow one of two distinct paths.

The path of heart expansion.

Or the path of heart contraction.

Like a wake-up call.

A jolt of transformative CPR.

Compassion, Presence, Resilience.

The self-compassion to hope.

The presence to hope.

The resiliency to hope.

To appreciate health in a way that I never did before.

To appreciate hope in a way that I never did before.

To appreciate life in a way that I never did before.

Look for hope.

I hope you'll join me.