Sometimes you find strength hiding in the most unexpected places.

Tonight I saw such strength.

My former employee, my colleague, my friend...

Rhonda.

She is a phenomenal woman. Here is not the place to go into her life in detail. Let me just say that this sweet, quiet, shy (but only a little) woman is a paragon of strength and resolve.

Her love - a wonderful man by all accounts - passed away this weekend, quite unexpectedly.

Tonight I saw someone that I only hope I can be, if I'm called to be, someday.

If someone can be said to glow - to radiate - then surely that was Rhonda tonight.

I cannot imagine what she must be feeling right now. I hope I never have to.

But if I do - I hope I can be like Rhonda. I can think of no better way to be.