There are times in life where we want to do things yet we allow our fears to hold us back. Often will have choices to make and instead of being led by hope, we choose to let our fears lead us. When hope is our compass, we can go far in life as it can be a tremendous driving force. Hope can take us places we never imagined. It can guide us beyond our neighborhoods, beyond the boundaries of the state that we grow up in, and even out of the country that we call home. We can get

Secrets have a way of catching up with us. Everything done in the darkness eventually finds its way into the light. I can remember being a little girl and in the lying in bed at night totally convinced that there was the boogie man hiding underneath my bed. I would lay there frozen with terror, convinced that if I moved he would get me. I would be so consumed with fear that I couldn’t even scream for my parents to come and help me. Eventually, one of them would pass my room i