A Moment Aside --- 3 August 2021
There is much to be said
for what I’d call “common courage.” To get up each morning and face the
adversity of the day, the troubles and pains that each day holds requires a
sort of courage we don’t really give much credit to.
People faced with chronic
pain of mind or body and carry on have a sort of courage. It isn’t the sort of
courage that is seen in people facing off against a grizzly bear or of the man
who stood in front of a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square in China some years
ago. Those might be once-in-a-lifetime events. Facing the daily struggle of
arthritis, blindness, or so many other situations requires a hidden sort of courage.
In truth, such “common
courage” is not so common. It is found everywhere, but it is, in its own way, extraordinary.
In God’s own way, it is full of grace.
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