Got Courage? . Part 1
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
It is one of those days when I would tune in to watch a video sermon that I know would help me, (and help others as well), so I am making copious notes and I am going to be sharing it with my blog subscribers and guests! Turn it into a blog post… a series blog post! 🙂
Hitting three birds with one stone. One to help me, Two to publish my personal learning notes and turn it into a blog post, and Three, to help others ALSO, if they would choose to learn as well, from my “learning notes” …. so I am typing away as I listen.
It jump started another series…. I did this all in one sitting… and am chopping it up, breaking it down to several posts.
I ended up pausing the video as I have mustered up the guts and courage to share what I am going to share in this series… some of the things that comes to my mind to share as well…
Got Courage? Plain old questions …
Will the people who know you best say you are “courageous” or “cowardly”?
Did they watch you run away from difficult situations or do you face these difficult situations courageously?
If you make mistakes, are you courageous enough to admit it and correct it? Or do you blame it on somebody else?
When you became a Christian (if you are one), did you have the courage to share your decision with the people around you? Your family, your friends, your colleagues, or other people that you meet?
Or do you keep your “faith” to yourself? Afraid to talk about what you truly believe in? When you hear other people talk about God or Jesus in a disdainful way, do you say ANYTHING?
Do you talk about what Christ means to you, or do you just walk away from them?
Got Courage? My plain not so old answers…
Will the people who know you best say you are “courageous” or “cowardly”?
It depends on what “era” or decade it is in my life….
…. when I was in my twenties …
… I think I was mostly courageous, than cowardly…
… now in hindsight, I KNOW I was a “kid” then, and when I had my own child, when I was in my twenties, now I know that I was still a child myself, when I had my own child. HOWEVER, I take pride that in that chapter of my life, knowing what I knew, about the cultural and societal stigma that I had to face as a single mother (the father of my child, was about my age… we were both young… and he wasn’t ready to be a father to our child and so I didn’t push it, whether or not he was with me, I chose to make THAT decision to have my baby anyway. Happen what may.
… in those years, THAT cultural and societal stigma hurt like hell. And so, yup, I was an outcast that time, perpetually judged. But even as early as then, I hung on to my faith in God, because even then I knew, that He can forgive us our sins (fornication), but He can not excuse us from its consequences. I was at my “super-scared” mode in my life when I went into labor prematurely, three days of labor because I wanted to NOT give birth yet, but it came to a point when my own vital signs were going down the drain, and so did my baby’s. We both had to be revived when they ended up having to transfer me to another hospital, to perform an emergency C-section surgery.
… Courage? I had no choice but to be courageous! I was to take care of this infant, even if I myself was still a child!
Continued on next blog post
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Got Courage? . Part 1
Abusive Relationship . Part 2
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