You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Brave by Sara Bareilles
I am sure unless you have been avoiding the internet or you have been living under a rock you have seen or heard the song Brave by Sara Bareilles.
What I know for sure is, some people will not always give
you what you want, so you got to be brave.
“Expectations are the root of all heartache” Words wisely
spoken by William Shakespeare :)
You can always ask what you want, but you still open
yourself up to the possibility that you may not get it. In time you eventually
come to realize that you can live without more attention, an apology, respect,
adoration, or whatever it is you’re long to receive from someone else. Someone once told me, it takes courage to stand up for the love and
life you feel you truly deserve.
Courage, truly a commanding word. I always thought it took self-awareness,
self-respect, and self-love to stand up for what you want. But I realize that it sure takes a lot of
courage as well. Courage is choosing to be seen when it feels safer to
hide. We sometimes run full speed in the
opposite direction when presented with the opportunity to be actually involved
in something that is real, that makes you feel alive, something that is good. Sometimes when something feels so good it
feels alien to us and we run back to what is familiar. We sometimes tend to forget that we are not
limited to our past or heaven forbid to what lies ahead. So we opt to stay and idle in what is
familiar.
I say how about we be compelled to step into the unknown and outside of the lines that is familiar and be brave.When I think of brave, I think of people who take risks, deliberately
step away from safety, to try and do something they never imagined they would
do. I equate bravery with selflessness,
courage with risk taking. We should not
be afraid of what is yet to come, because God’s (whatever you conceive Him to
be) presence illuminates our path. We need to have that faith to trust beyond
what we can see and shut down the voices that compete for our attention and
affection, and choose to be brave. Nothing
stands still, inside of you and around you there is always transformation. A
way forward.
Being brave means taking that step when discouragement tries
to stop you in your tracks. Have you notice that fear wants you to focus on uncertainty,
the disappointments, the questions. But today
say NO to that fear and give your attention to Hope, to Recovery, to
Possibility, to Restoration, to Love again… The way forward. Courage gives you permission to express, to
rebuild, to create, to be unashamed, and to experience something beyond what
you expected. Your YES to courage could
set something powerful into motion that will reach past your lifetime and build
foundations for lives yet to be lived. Sound
far-fetched not really. When you choose
courage anything is possible so;
Be Brave.
Bravery is contagious, be Brave
I am Brave!
My pennies worth for now.
Ciao
Noly
