Courage.

[labelleizzy]

Courage is a muscle that gets stronger the more you use it.

If I am brave, that is because I practiced bravery until it became habit.

Any of us can do it. Many, most of us have. Mostly we choose to be brave when the other choice seems intolerable : to stay in the infuriating job or the marriage that fails to feed us, to give up on the needs of our children, to knuckle under in the face of some illness or other burden that feels overwhelming.

Courage is a decision.
Patience is a decision.
Grace is a decision, and so is hope.

Some days I make my choice again and again and again. I try to choose courage, I try to choose hope, I try to choose faith in myself and humanity.

Some times I fail. Then the challenge is to get up again and make a new choice.


"I get up.
I walk.
I fall down.
Meanwhile, I keep dancing."

(Hillel, via Renee Locks)

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Comments

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

You know as well as I do, Sue, that there are parents who do not do for their children what you do for yours.
It is a choice.
Many times we just do what we know is right - but sometimes it is good to realize that we CHOSE to do right, and we keep choosing that, and those choices build the future we want most.

hope>fear
love>indifference
art>ugliness