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Personal Reflection
Despair is easy. It comes on like the tide, constant and heavy, pulling at your ankles until standing still feels like sinking. Hope takes more work. It’s stubborn, unruly, and often inconvenient. But it’s the only thing that keeps despair from swallowing us whole. John Lewis knew that struggle doesn’t end—it just changes shape. The call isn’t to wait for it to ease, but to step into it, to fight, to raise your voice even when silence feels safer. Hope without action is fantasy. Action without hope is ruin. Together, they’re survival.

Reflective Prompt
What’s your version of “good trouble”? Where in your life—or in the world—does silence feel safer, but noise might be necessary?