My 10-year-old daughter always rushed to the bathroom as soon as she came home from school. When I asked, “Why do you always take a bath right away?” she smiled and said, “I just like to be clean.” However, one day while cleaning the drain, I found something. The moment I saw it, my whole body started trembling, and I immediately…

my breath until she came back through the door, safe and sound. Every time she laughed with her friends, I marveled at the resilience in her spirit, the quiet strength that had always been there, hidden beneath her innocence.

It wasn’t perfect. There were days when it felt like we were moving backward instead of forward. But we kept moving forward. continue reading …