Tuesday, November 3, 2020

It Takes Courage

 


Author Unknown

It takes courage
To refrain from gossip
When others delight in it,


To stand up for the absent person
Who is being abused.


It takes courage
To live honestly
Within your means,

And not dishonestly
On the means of others.


It takes courage
To be a REAL man or a TRUE woman,

To hold fast to your ideals
When it causes you
To be looked upon
As strange and peculiar.


It takes courage
To be talked about,

And remain silent,
When a word would justify you
In the eyes of others,

But which you dare not speak
Because it would injure another.


It takes courage
To refuse to do something
That is wrong
Although everyone else
May be doing it
With attitudes as carefree
As a summer song.


It takes courage
To live according
To your own convictions,
To deny yourself
What you cannot afford.
To love your neighbor
As yourself!





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THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR