Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart
We have learned from experience that a wave of peacefulness washes over us after we have successfully finished a task that was difficult to face. Courage has its reward. However, from time to time, and from task to task, we find we need the reminder that peace will come once the loose ends have been tied by us.
Our search for peace was desperate and unending in past years. Our fears overwhelmed us more often than not. Courage was seldom displayed. Tasks were often left half done or not done at all. Challenges went unmet. And peace eluded us.
We are so lucky that the program found us, and that we found the program! We are looking forward, at last, with the courage that trusting a higher power has given us. Peace is ours, now and always, as we go forth with the strength of the program to bolster us. New jobs, new friends, new situations may still elicit our old fears. But their hold on us is gone. We have learned that we face nothing alone. What relief that simple truth brings.
Courage is one of the program's gifts. I will have courage to go forward: to meet the new day, to handle whatever confronts me. Peace is coupled with courage, now and forever.
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
To me courage is the ability or power to act inspite of fear. I used to think that courage was the total absence of fear, I think tody that that was unrealistic and an impossibility. The ability to ask God to take away my fear, and the reality that he does in fact do that, is a reassurance that God is indeed listening to me when I pray. It is confirmation that we are together. Fear comes to separate me from God, and courage is the result of fears failure to accomplish its goals. I could not have any mastery over fear unless God gave it to me and because he does this for me, I have the courage to face today.
