Right now, I could ask for nothing more than courage. People keep saying that what I'm doing takes a lot of courage. I wouldn't say I have courage. I would call it faith. Faith and hope and trust in my God that this year is going to work. That this year will be fruitful and joyous and challenging. That this year will bring new a new mindset, a new way of thinking, a strong relationship between me and God; me and humanity. It isn't courage I have, but it is courage I need. Courage to make this journey. The courage that Howard Thurman talks about in his poem....
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Really live-- not merely exist.
Live dangerously,
Scorniging risk!
Live honestly,
Daring the truth--
Particularly the truth of myself!
Live resiliently--
Ever changing, ever growing, ever adapting.
Enduring the pain of change
As though 'twere the travail of birth.
Give me the courage to live,
Give me the strength to be free
And endure the burden of freedom
And the loneliness of those without chains;
Let me not be trapped by success,
Nor by failure, not pleasure, nor grief,
Nor malice, nor praise, nor remorse!
Give me the courage to go on!
Facing all that waits on the trail--
Going eagerly, joyously on,
And paying my way as I go,
Without anger or fear or regret
Taking what life gives,
Spending myself to the full,
Dead high, spirit winged, like a god--
On... on... till hte shadows draw close.
Then even when darkness shuts down,
And I go out alone as I came,
Naked and blind as I came--
Even then, gracious God, hear my prayer:
Give me the courage to live!
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May it be so.
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