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It's amazing how God turns the labels people mark on us into something beautifully purposeful. Often, these labels are from people close to us whom we look at as our rays of hope and direction. The question is, what do you do when you are marked or called something you deeply feel you are not?  Carolyne Bagala takes us away with her story. " Hope isn’t something you find; it’s something you create (Write)." —Carolyne. THE MESSAGE: We often wait for that big job or the big launch to feel purposeful, but purpose is sometimes found in our very struggles, in lonely walks on the streets, in the weight of silent moments, and in those quiet, hidden spaces under the blanket. My life has been a journey of ups and downs. I’ve often had to make the brave choice to see hope where the world offered me nothing but darkness.  One of those dark rooms was a classroom. In my earlier years, a teacher asked me to read to the class. Just two or three lines in, she looked at me wit...