Through the Eyes of Faith

Middle school can be full of half-real friends. Meet Faith Seymour. She’s new to Creekland Middle School. Faith had to leave her best friend, Caitlin, behind in the old neighborhood. She had been at her old school since kindergarten. This year would be a year of change and challenges. She was on a mission to find a real live genuine friend. Little did she know the year would be full of many missions, many lessons, and many question-filled moments. Faith was familiar with questioning. She’d been questioning since she was born or at least since she could talk, ＂What does my name mean?＂ When she was three-years-old, her little brother was born, and his arrival brought more questions because her family found out Jacob (that’s her brother) was profoundly deaf. Later, they were told he has Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) too. He was diagnosed to go blind by the time he turned ten-years-old. Faith would face questions that would force her to grapple with and grab hold of the true definition of her name.