Stand
He is the quiet voice
In a noisy, crowded room
A very small plant
Needing nurture to bloom
His home is deep within
The everyday, the ordinary
Careening through their every pore
Making them extraordinary
He is the firm platform used
To make a halting stand
He makes strong the quiet, the shy
With nervous, shaking hands
He partners with Passion
And together, they trek close behind Love
Offering lasting changes
For those who care enough.
Courage.
Sometimes I think courage is seen as a gigantic character trait that flies in the face of anyone who happens to look at the life of someone displaying it. Courage can be seen as the trait of those waging wars across the sea, or of those whose lives are flashed in the media as having overcome hardships… And I do believe that those people are courageous, and I believe they deserve our admiration!
But I also believe that the face of courage, more often than not, is in the little moments that no one knows about.
It lives in the moments that are sometimes ordinary, such as a girl making a new child at school feel welcome, are small building blocks of courage. And the same drive making that little girl reach out to someone outside of her own comfort zone will be the same drive that will one day allow her to do great things.
It’s courage.
It is the feet we use to walk through open doors of change.
It is the heart beating within every good cause, trying to make a difference. Love, Passion and Courage…
Those three things together can make anything possible.
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