Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.O - Cheryl Strayed

I never got to be in the driver’s seat of my own life,” she’d wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. “I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I’ve always been someone’s daughter or mother or wife. I’ve never just been me.

only when I thought how far I had yet to go that I lost faith that I would get there.

What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah?