Courage is to know your enemy is lurking near while you sit motionless, heart calm, with mind thinking plainly and able to speak your strength with clarity in your eyes, all without looking behind you. When was the last time you had this kind of courage during a teenage discussion with your child?
There have been countless times it would have taken great courage to shut my mouth during some unfriendly exchange. It would have been a very good thing to speak strength with my eyes instead of my mouth. But my heart was racing too fast to control that kind of courage. I must need more practice. But who is looking forward to the next opportunity to prove this?
The difference is to know the difference. The difference is in doing the difference.
Doctors practice medicine, we should practice courage.
So many times we link courage to the events of death. We admire the soldier that was courageous enough to give his life. But there is another angle to view about courage. Many times the test of courage is to live rather than to die.
If the soul is to have a great sense of character, and fear has said its deepest prayers, the essential elements that produce courage will be on all hands.
Don’t get trapped by measuring a thing. Permit your courage to advance its ground.
To follow can take great courage. To hazard may take more. But to curb your mind into becoming more resolute towards a just cause will deliver courage abound.
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