Courage is a basic virtue. What use is wisdom if you don’t have the courage to act wisely? What value is love if you don’t have the courage to love? What importance is truth if you don’t have the courage to speak it? What consequence is faith without the courage to embrace it? Courage activates all other goodness.
Change requires honesty. It takes courage to confront the truth of our unmanageable lives and then admit it. It takes courage to surrender our lives and wills to God. It takes courage to face our moral life and honestly take our inventory and then admit our findings to another human being. It takes courage to make our best efforts to make amends, continue our inventory, maintain our conscious contact with God — all of it takes Courage.
We can be courageous because we do not walk alone. We are with one another and God. It is knowing that we have the support and friendship of our friends that supplies the courage we often lack.
PRAYER:
Christ, increase my courage. Strengthen my will to walk with you bravely. May I be encouraged by my friends.
