Brave and Courageous | Keira's Place

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Be Brave and Courageous this was the thought that came to me as I was cleaning my cherished items in my curio cabinet.

Some of my favorite verses in the Bible are about being brave and courageous or strong and courageous. My favorite is: Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

I’m not a physically strong person, especially compared to the body builder Lisa Aukland.

I am strong in other ways. I am strong emotionally and I have been brave through the years, especially when it came to rearing youngin’s . My children were raised to be brave and courageous, and most of the time they were. I remember when my daughter was little and she had to go to the doctor to get a shot. She’d start crying before the doctor came into the room. I could not bribe her into bravery and I could not shame her into bravery, no way was she accepting those shots. Usually she cried so loudly that she couldn’t hear my pleas. It always amazed the doctors when they would enter the room and all they could hear was the roar of a child’s cries.

Now she’s all grown with children of her own and she has raised her boys to be brave and courageous. Over the last several months she has been suffering with back pain. I suggested she go in to get a pain shot to help ease her pain until they can figure out what her problem is. She instantly turned pale and said, “Mom, I am not going into the doctor to get a shot for any reason.”

So it was with my son, I raised him to be brave and courageous. And he was, mostly, unless it came to spiders. If a spider got close to him he’d yell, “Kill it, kill it.” The fear in his voice gave me cold chills. Once he married, his wife saw a spider and she said to my son, “Kill it!” He handed her a shoe and yelled, “Kill it, kill it.”

He also raised his children to be brave and courageous. It worked. He had a beautiful little girl who loved bugs. Bugs of all kinds, if there was a spider in their house and she was present she would yell, “ Don’t kill it, don’t kill it.”

In my novel “Stamp Out Murder” James was not a strong and courageous man. In fact, he was very passive until the life of the girl he loved was in danger, from somewhere deep within himself he pulled out the strength to be brave and courageous.

In my tween novel “The Secret in Grandma’s Trunk” Brandon and Jacob had to pull out grown up feelings, in order to save Grandma, they had to be brave and courageous.

In your life, have you ever had to be brave and courageous? Was it a life threatening situation or something more common?

Sta mp Out Murder”.