Blog Series: Finding Hope – Kathy Peterson

Kathy Peterson – Soup Of Success Staff

Hope is:
* Sally taking her GED test and saying, “I can’t believe I’m actually doing this!”
* Mary expressing her gratitude for the push career counseling is giving her to explore new paths and talk to new people.
* Cindy discovering personal resources she didn’t know she had.
* Carolyn researching CNA classes and sharing the information she found with the class.
* Jessie exclaiming, “Look! I’m driving!”
* Rosemary’s new job.
* Roscel’s new house.
* Rolanda going back to school to become an RN.
* Angie’s pride in her son’s progress.
* Cherie’s food ministry serving many in the community.

Hope is:
The way the women at SOS look out for each other – sharing rides or a place you can get help, celebrating birthdays and new apartments and new relationships, encouraging the one who is scared to take the next step, offering comfort and shoulders and tissues to someone who’s been hurt, sharing coffee and snacks and jokes and wisdom.

Hope is:
The quiet gleam in each woman’s eye as she shared her “Dream Day” poem today -shining with her vision of her own better days ahead -safe and comfortable in her own home, surrounded by people she loves, working and learning and growing still.