Spiritual Courage
Courage is connected with taking risks. Jumping the Grand Canyon on a motorbike, coming over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or crossing the ocean in a rowboat are called courageous acts because people risk their lives by doing these things. But none of these daredevil acts comes from the centre of our being. They all come from the desire to test our physical limits and to become famous and popular.
Spiritual courage is something completely different. It is following the deepest desires of our hearts at the risk of losing fame and popularity. It asks of us the willingness to lose our temporal lives in order to gain eternal life.
from here (also check out www.henrinouwen.org
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What is the deepest desire of your heart?
How might fame or popularity be interfering with you receiving/living into that deepest desire?
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
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I have found as I have been writing, I have had to learn how to put aside what other people may think about what I wrote. Will they think it's any good? Will it cause controversy and what does that say about me if someone is upset or angry about something I have written?
Facing these questions, I am reminded that God alone is really my audience. And what delights him may not, will probably not, delight everyone else. :-)
Thank you
I have found as I have been writing, I have had to learn how to put aside what other people may think about what I wrote. Will they think it's any good? Will it cause controversy and what does that say about me if someone is upset or angry about something I have written?
Facing these questions, I am reminded that God alone is really my audience. And what delights him may not, will probably not, delight everyone else. :-)
Thank you for these thoughts today.
~Charlena
Charlena,
You are living a beautifully courageous life and it IS impacting our world tremendously. Thanks for doing what you do - living with audacity and risk and beauty! Fly woman! Fly!
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