The Many Faces of Resilience
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. –Psalm 46:1
When the center of a family is lost, someone often steps in to hold the pieces together. Sometimes, that someone never expected to be the anchor. But they become it anyway.
Maria’s story is one of these.
She’s a nurse. Her husband worked in healthcare, too. They raised three children together. Then, cancer came—and took him. Her kids were just stepping into adulthood.
Her only son married, and not long after, he passed away from cancer, too. Her oldest daughter had two young children when she was diagnosed with a different kind of cancer. She passed away as well, leaving behind two little ones under the age of eight.
Could Maria have dropped out of life? Absolutely. No one would’ve blamed her. But she didn’t.
She became the steady presence. The anchor. The one who showed up for her daughter’s children, her son-in-law, and the rest of her grieving family.
She didn’t ask for all the roles life handed her. But she embraced them with the fierceness of a mother lion. Her strength became shelter—for everyone else.
Resilience is sometimes quiet.
It looks like caregiving, consistency, and love that steadies others. It’s the presence that says,
“I’ve got you.”
Even when no one says it back.
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