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What is Courage
« on: Jan 18th, 2008, 5:46pm » |
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I wanted to share this with you all. There are so many here that have been examples of courage and support to me and everyone else. I gal at work sent me this today.
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We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
The definition of courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair. In the past we may have been called courageous because we stayed in circumstances that were difficult or nearly unbearable. We may have felt that walking away from family, children, or friends was cowardly or displayed weakness. We may have felt that by holding back our tears we were stronger people.
Yet all the things we may have viewed as weakness are really signs of courage. All the things we believed to be acts of courage were really not courageous at all. If we walked away from difficult or unbearable circumstances, we would be conquering despair. If we cried, we would have been courageous by letting go of our fear, pain, or sadness.
Courage doesn't mean putting ourselves in stressful or unpleasant situations. Courage doesn't mean controlling our emotions. Courage is the ability to strengthen ourselves against the fear and despair of life, rather than be drowned by it.
What have I done today that took courage? I can be grateful for my courage and strengthen it.
You are reading from the book:
Night Light by Amy E. Dean. Copyright 1986, 1992 by Hazelden Foundation.
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