"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
-Nelson Mandela
What does courage mean to you?
To me, courage means that one trusts God in the face of impossible circumstances. It is trust in the unknown future, trusting that everything will work out, despite the difficult present time.
I have personally had to be courageous most of my life. My life was threatened multiple times as a child. I prayed to God many times to be delivered from the unbelievable difficulties. When I became homeless as a teenager, I didn't know how everything would work out... but they did.
Courage isn't born in easy circumstances. It is born in the times when we don't know which way is up, the times when we are terrified and yet we walk in the way of the light, the times when we think the world is caving in on us and we don't know how to move forward...
Courage is born in the difficult circumstances of our lives, when we trust God regardless of our immediate future.
We need to trust that God has a greater plan ahead of us, if we just hang in there.
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