Spiritual Themes>Courage to Be
From Your Minister
Over ten million people have now watched online a 20-minute talk called “The Power of Vulnerability.” It’s a talk by Brené Brown, a researcher on the topic.
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Imagine that you are standing in front of a group of colleagues, or your entire class, about to give a presentation.
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In the cause of silence, each of us draws the face of her own fear—fear of contempt, of censure, or some judgment, or recognition, of challenge or annihilation.
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As I have held the idea of courage in my mind, preparing to write this column, I have seen and heard it all around me.
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Isabel, who is ten years old, gave us permission to share this essay that she wrote on courage, the theme of this month’s Quest.
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We may never know when we will be asked to prove ourselves or if the next plane trip will test our capacity for heroism.
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Many years ago I learned this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: “The courage that my mother had/ Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried;/ Now granite in a granite hill…
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I was standing beside a small mountain waterfall at a Shinto shrine in the mountains outside Nagoya during my first visit to Japan.
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Bravery is a choice. It is a decision to enter into the fray no matter how illogical and crazy things are. Even as our friends, family and common sense recommend that we stay away.
Read MoreBroken Expectations
When I was a kid, my family called me the count. Whenever I was bored, I would count things. I counted all the lights in the sanctuary of my church, all the cars going the other way on the road, and all the birds eating stale bread off our deck.
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