<p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Growth doesn’t always come with applause.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Sometimes, it begins in places no one sees—</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>in quiet rooms, heavy with doubt,</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>in moments filled with questions and tired hands.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>You weren’t in the spotlight.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>You weren’t the loudest voice.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>But you were there—showing up,</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>even when no one noticed.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><br></em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>You planted your seeds in dry soil.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Watered them with tears.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Fertilized them with faith.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>And still, you waited—</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>not for permission, but for purpose.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><br></em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>There were seasons you almost gave up,</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>when your dreams felt too heavy to carry,</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>when your light felt too dim to shine.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>But even then, you grew.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Slowly, softly, in the stillness of becoming.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><br></em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>You didn’t need an audience.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>You needed alignment.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>And when the time was right,</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>you began to bloom—</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>not for validation, but for yourself.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Not for perfection, but for healing.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><br></em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>You are the flower they overlooked.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>The story they didn’t expect.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>The strength they never saw coming.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><br></em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Now you stand, not louder—</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>but deeper, bolder, fuller.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Blooming not to be seen,</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>but because it is who you are.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><br></em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>You bloomed in silence.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Now you rise in strength.</em></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Still rooted. Still rising. Still enough.</em></span></font></p>