“This can be your problem or your purpose,” she said to me.

It was someone with whom I once worked, who so graciously helped me to navigate this path of Parkinson’s. I was terrified and alone. And she knew it

I wanted to say a million different things… “You don’t understand” “it’s a lot harder than you think” or “How dare you try to stand in these shoes?”

But that’s nearly always the case, now isn’t it? When presented a problem, we immediately recoil and reject. We focus on the why, instead of the why not.

Life is always there to teach. Even in these seemingly desperate, we learn of faith – of another’s and our own.

Life doesn’t end in the span of one painful moment. It opens, it expands, it fills us with the light of a divine purpose. Though, we may feel lost — rest assured, spirit finds itself here. Waiting to usher us home.

Wee it not for that moment; I wouldn’t know the bonds of true friendship. I wouldn’t understand this lesson of hope. Or how love conquers all in the end.

Though, most of all I wouldn’t have this space here to share; sadly, I may have missed the gift of your light.

But for that one flickering moment of belief, I’d have surely lost my way.

My darlings, when we believe – we engage this world in an entirely new way; that is through the gentle arms of optimism, hope and love.

Namaste ~ ❤️