ME: When are things going to get easier? 

OLD WOMAN: They already are. 

ME: Doesn’t feel like it. I keep waiting for Creator to step in. 

OLD WOMAN: She already has. She always will. Keep faith burning in your heart. 

ME: I have. I’ve been waiting for things to change. 

OLD WOMAN: Faith isn’t about waiting for things to change. Faith is the constant effort to keep pushing through. 

ME: What’s on the other side? 

OLD WOMAN: You. 

― Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations