Editor's Note by Nicole Dominguez

Editor’s Note

Nicole Dominguez, senior English Literature major

In choosing a theme for the Legacy Writing Contest, it is always important to choose one that is relevant to our times. Overcoming seemed the perfect theme, not only in our political and cultural climate, but in this phase in our lives as students. We are in the critical years: the years of growth, years of discovery, and years of development that allow us to become the people we are meant to be. But this is a parallel process. With that growth, that discovery, that development, comes confrontation with pain, doubt, and struggle. It is the human condition that we all must go through in order to get to the other side. Getting there means we must overcome. We must overcome those doubts that overwhelm us, those fears that cripple us, those storms that rage within us, and those past hurts that we believe define us. The overcoming process is a healing season that is painful, but always leads us to a better self with new beginnings that will forever remind us that with God’s help, we are strong enough to Overcome.