EDITResilience
Courage is fear that comes along; I can go accompanied.
Courage is rarely loud. These prayers ask for the strength to face what must be faced, to act despite fear, and to endure what cannot be quickly changed — without pretending the fear away and without promising outcomes that are not ours to promise.
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Today's prayer
EDITOriginal compositionPRACShared traditionSource of strength, who has steadied frightened people since the first morning,
there is a thing in front of me I would rather walk around. I am not asking you to remove it; I am asking you to accompany me through it. Give me a spine for the next hour, a voice that does not disappear when I need it, and breath deep enough to carry me across the doorway. Let me remember that fear and courage are not opposites — courage is simply fear that has decided to come along. Whatever the outcome, let me respect the person who walked in.
I go accompanied. That is the whole of my bravery, and it is enough. Amen.
Courage is fear that comes along; I can go accompanied.
I have survived every hard day so far; that record means something.
I can do the next hard thing without being unafraid of it.
What are you afraid of — and what is on the other side of that fear?
Recall a time you did the hard thing anyway. What carried you through?
Where in your life is quiet endurance already at work, unacknowledged?