COURAGEOUS SOUL (by Andre Bohrer)
//15//fifty-two weeks of design
COURAGE.When does someone know courage is present?Is it when everyone has their eyes on the center-stage, waiting for the ring master to make the first move?Is it when a simple budge from a muscular arm saves the helpless woman under the burning car?Is it when the expected &mdash; however grandiose &mdash; is carried out, in order to maintain the erected reputation?
Or is it when everything is said and done, and, in the quiet, a word of empowerment roars through the air?Or is it when the little man suddenly becomes the one who fears no death, and the big giant is suddenly the one who trembles at its breath?Or is it when the humble and wise admit to the knowing that courage comes not from the outside, but within?
I&amp;#8217;ve learned a lot about courage lately. Different people, and different things, have spoken to me in different ways.
One of my friends reminded me of 2 Timothy 1:7, which says: &amp;#8220;For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.&amp;#8221;
Captain American taught me more than I could possibly imagine.
And yet another one of my friends, featured above, showed me in real life &mdash; even if he may have thought it was the silliest of forms &mdash; what a courageous soul truly was.