Courage sometimes doesn’t look like the typical type of courage that everyone thinks about - the warrior type - like the William Wallace character in Braveheart.
Sometimes courage looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA
Enjoy!
Did you know that if you do a Yahoo search for courage you come up with over 55 million hits. Do a Google search and you end up with over 62 million hits. That’s alot of information about courage. It’s also encouraging to see so much interest about courage.
Since this is a blog about courage in it’s many different forms, I want to take a moment today to write what I’ve learned about courage over the last few years. I don’t know if it’s anything really profound or not, but I’d welcome your response and ideas about what courage means to you.
Courage to me is not only those times when one man stands up in a crowd and speaks his mind, even though everyone else disagrees with him. It’s not just people who practice their faith openly in places where people would kill you because you are a particular faith. It’s not just perservering beyond all you’ve got to finish a task, it’s much more. These are the faces of courage we are used to seeing and we should.
The other faces of courage that we often don’t hear about are quieter, yet carry just as much weight. Courage is also being willing to let go and put your complete trust in another person, regardless of what the situation calls for. Courage can also be those times when we decide to be completely out of control. I don’t mean wild and acting like a monkey, but times when we determine that not being in control of a situation is the best option. Letting go of control can be just as difficult as standing up in a room and voicing your opposing opinion. I’m talking about times when courage calls you to let a situation take care of itself. For someone who is highly dominent, it takes an act of courage to allow yourself to not be the decision maker, the decider, the arbiter. It takes courage to see a challenge and allow others to figure out the answer for themselves. It takes courage to realize and live by the motto “it’s not about me.”
These are just some of the ways I’ve experienced courage, either by doing or seeing others do these things. How about you?