On Courage - A Channeled Piece

Courage is but one petal in the flower of life. Everyone requires differing amounts of courage at different points in their lives. The courage a mother requires to give birth. The courage a father needs to allow his children to make their own way in the world. The courage any individual finds when they have been told they have a terrible illness. But, each of these people always, without fail, find the courage they need to take the next step in their lives. The difference for each of them, though, is how much fear they must overcome before they decide to act. For, act they must. Act or die.

It is a conscious decision a person will make when they decide to act with courage. In the one moment they were afraid. In the next they might still be afraid, but now they have decided to act and to act while still afraid or having just come from a place of fear is to show great courage.

What courage is there for a strong man to lift enormous weights compared to a 98 pound weakling to lift the 300 pounds that has trapped his mother? In our opinion, in that particular instance, more courage was shown by the smaller man. But, in no case should you think that overall the weakling demonstrates more courage than the stronger man, for it might require as much courage on the part of the stronger man to be gentle.

If you are faced with an enormous task, a task daunting, you might reflect upon the idea that you are always at one with the universe. It might not feel that way to you most of the time, but you could, for a moment or two, suspend belief and pretend that you are one with the universe. From there, from the point of God's love that touches upon you 24 hours a day know that you can do anything you want to try. You do have the strength. You are strong enough to do anything. You can lose weight. You can quit smoking. You can quit drinking. You can find another job. You can rebuild your life. You can pass with dignity through the trials of illness to health.

It is not necessary that you give up. It is suggested, though, that you stop struggling.

Our blessings.