Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “courage”
Vulnerability: one of life’s most radical opportunities for immense failure or intense joy. Relationships allow us a choice: to enter in with all that we are, or to cautiously hold ourselves at bay. Subconsciously, or maybe consciously, we evaluate others. Are …
“What are these?” my two year old said. ”They’re elbows,” I told him. ”Oh.” He touched them gently. “I love your elbows.” Atlas Girl Kasher was looking at my elbows. I just stood there, staring down at these places called …
“Can I cry?” The deluge of tears and snot began, of course, before this terse sentence had even left my lips. I was mired in a season of life where I felt like nothing but one huge, raw, exposed nerve, …
I was sitting at my MOPS table when another mom called me out. Though I didn’t like it, I knew she was right. I was headed into a visit where I was assuming the worst was going to go down. …
She had her hands to her face, and she kept repeating to the lifeguard, “That’s my baby. That’s my baby.” My best friend’s toddler son, my godson, lay blue and unresponsive by the side of the pool, while lifeguards worked …
This originally appeared in A Fierce Flourishing Guidebook, which is a compilation workbook of amazing women sharing all sorts of important things you need to flourish this coming year. It is part of your Membership Welcome Kit, and you are …
Sharing hopes and dreams is a vulnerable pursuit. (We know.) It can be hard to tell if it’s a safe environment to share our deepest. It can be hard to tell just how much we have been invited to share. …
There’s a fifth person in our house now. She smells like springtime. A person with chubby cheeks and large blue eyes, with a strong neck who already rolls from side to side and whose favorite place is in someone’s arms, …
The call to Be you, Bravely is concurrently empowering and intimidating. We get that. Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start or identify exactly what is calling our hearts toward doing something brave. If you’re not sure what brave thing …
“What does that sign say?” A question I often hear from the backseat as we’re stopped at an intersection. I’m aware of the person standing on the corner asking for money, and I know my passengers’ questions are inevitable. I …