Anyone can look good #winning. When everything’s going your way, it’s easy to stand gracefully and beam with exuberance.

But to care for others when your heart’s been crushed, to trust when confidence is betrayed, to remain buoyant in a sea of despair, to smile when days feel mind-numbingly repetitious,

to fail with consequence, to lose with eloquence;

This requires a special kind of Soul—
a Love unbound by circumstance,
a Hope outside this world.