OF COURSE YOU CAN BE MORE COURAGEOUS

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During his years as premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev denounced many of the policies and atrocities of the late Joseph Stalin.

 

Once, as he censured Stalin in a public meeting, Khrushchev was interrupted by a shout from a heckler in the audience. "You were one of Stalin's colleagues. Why didn't you stop him?" "Who said that?" roared Khrushchev.

 

An agonizing silence followed as nobody in the room dared move a muscle. Then Khrushchev replied quietly, "Now you know why." Fear is paralysis dressed in many different garments while all the time courage is the garment we want to wear. A challenge!

 

Will you live a half lived life?

 

Will you chase challenges at high noon or let fear drive you into the shadows?

 

Will you drive with your foot constantly on the brake and your vision aimed at no horizon higher than the rut in the road?

 

Will you put wings on your dreams and give them free reign to fly?

 

Will you place yourself at risk so you can be proud to have shown courage when at the moment you did not have as much as you just showed?

 

Will you at least sometimes seek to grow on the side of a rocky mountain slope so that even if you fail you will have had the exhileration of knowing you tried?

 

We all have differfent areas where courage lifts us or leaves us. And there is no reason to list them, for they are as varied as each star hanging in the sky and as much alike as well. And how to handle fear rather than letting it handle us is pretty much the same no matter what the fear is. So, let’s begin.

 

First thing to do. Start a Fear journal. Write down all the things you are afraid of and the last time that particular fear challenged you and what was your response and how much did it defeat you and how much did you defeat it.

 

And why?

 

And what should you have done?

 

And what will you do next time?

 

Start making a road map and put together an emotional, practical pragmatic, spiritual construction company to begin actually working on improving your fear factor.

 

We learn from doing rather than undoing. "Nothing in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

 

That’s on the first page of my Fear journal. There is such a freedom from not always being afraid or at least lessening the number of items of which we are afraid.

 

Courage is a virtue. Think on this. By way of example; without the virtue of courage we cannot exhibit of the courage of tolerance.

 

And be patient I tell myself. I did not pick up bad emotional habits in a moment. I, even with God’s help, be rid of them in a moment. Do the best you can. That is the beginning of winning the war again fear.

 

Two steps forward and one step backwards. Holding even so the fear gets no worse. Do the best you can and keep on praying for courage pays no attention to the calendar…and yesterday’s fear can be conquered until it no longer chases us into our tomorrows.

 

And if our progress is slow or next to nothing, we have the satisfaction of knowing we are fighting against it all the way. And praying for it’s removal all the way. And anxiety over something that is a living reality.

 

I remember looking down at my paralyzed left arm and doing so for two whole months before one day I moved my little finger. And how it came back, not completely, but enough that it functions (with some adaptations required) to make me daily sing a song of praise.

 

And when it all was happening, a prayer to not let fear make matters worse. It has been often told that Louis Pasteur had such an irrational fear of dirt and infection he refused to shake hands even of friends. President and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison were so intimidated by the newfangled electricity installed in the White House they refused to touch the switches.

 

If there were no servants around to turn off the lights when the Harrisons went to bed, they slept with them on. Remember when you were a little boy or girl and you were afraid of the dark.

 

Nothing was different about the room you were afraid of except that you could only imagine what might be there. Mother had just asked her little boy to go to the basement and bring her a can of tomato soup. The light bulb had gone out and after a brief bit of light made it’s way down the stairs it was very dark down there. “I can’t " said the little boy.

 

It’s dark down there. I’m scared.” She persisted and he just kept saying, “I can’t mother. I can’t.” Finally, she said, “Son, It’s OK..Jesus will be down there with you.” John walked to the basement door, looked down into the darkness and called out,

“Jesus, if you’re in there, will you hand me that can of tomato soup?’ Yes, that is you and me.

 

Asking for the hand of Jesus on our shoulder to quiet our trembling heart when a fear or fears are paralyzing us. And yes, this is when we need to pray and then walk down into the darkness repeating all the way “The peace that passeth understanding Lord, please.

 

And here I go.”

 

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Serialization of another book SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING This book, SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING, is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.” (Susanne K. Langer)

 

MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE. “I am come that they (you) may have life and have it to the full. (John 10:10)

 

Anyone who lives long enough gets older. There are no other options. How we handle the adventure is filled with options. Keep both eyes on life, and not on the calendar.

 

Admit your age, but don’t admit to the fallacy that you have to act like it. Saying, “I’m 39 and holding,” is more tragic than humorous because it argues that age has no attributes.

 

V. Neil Wyrick

 

Below a quote from it… “Be like the farmer who, when asked what he was building, replied, “if I can rent it, it’s a rustic cottage. If I can’t, it’s a cow shed.” It’s called attitude and it can make us prematurely old or longer young. For truly, things aren’t just what they are, but rather how we choose to see them.”

 

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A quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled HOW TO CONQUER YOUR OWN CONFUSION (4) “An ongoing revolution taking place in the living room of the heart. Not locking in sins. Not locking out God. Believing that God can take a pig of a person and turn him or her into a pearl of great price. “

 

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