A LOT OF COURAGE - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

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 neighbour
As yourself!

--Author unknown.

Reply by Rodney D Ready on October 31, 2009 at 9:25am

In thinking of others who have done us harm or spoken badly about us, on and on, we remember to hold nothing against them and to forgive our fellow man that Yahuweh can have his way for we do not know their heart and the best thing could happen that they also repent and we even may see an error in our ways that we repent as well. Yahuweh will see to it to take care of the eye for an eye..., we love our enemies, do good to them who despitefully use us,... as they may repent we do not know and in the understanding that vengeance is up to Yahuweh for we do not know upon whom vengeance is justly served, as in our best revenge of heart would be that all repent and come into the fullness of Yahuweh's Love in our great Family of our Yahushua!

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