COURAGE // 2024
Not because I have it, but because the Lord commands it, gives it. I get the choice. To choose it. As the Lord teaches sacrifice, a giving up of something precious, of worth. Laying down, handing over. Taking up should seem easy…should. But it stretches. Takes a collective act to lean into and not push back. Take courage dear heart. Because my heart needs to be told. As new roles encountered, as unknowns in the night or future, when I don’t know what to do, but am desperately scared of failing. He doesn’t whisper that I have all I need, but that He gives all that I need, because He has never left my side. Wherever I go. There’s often a way that we view courageous people, those that have done great acts. But. Have you ever noticed that we often don’t think about them that way until after the act was done? They went forward regardless of the circumstances or things stacked against them, and then were counted as numbered among the courageous. What if we’re asked to do the same? A year
