I can’t remember where I first picked up this quote…
probably social media… but I liked it enough that I wrote in on the dry erase
board in my office, and then I sort of forgot about it:
“Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’’ – Mary Anne Radmacher
“Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’’ – Mary Anne Radmacher
I think I love this quote so much, because I have had a lot
of days that have ended like that. If I’m
honest, there have been a few when I would have rather quit. Some have even been recent. I haven’t blogged in a month, because it has
been difficult to determine which of my scrawlings have been appropriate for
public consumption, and as it turns out I have learned a lot about which
feelings to vomit and which ones to swallow.
It’s OK.
So, I started this third day of Lent with the daily office,
and it wasn’t earth shattering for me. I
noted some things, particularly in the Philippians passage, and I gave a little
bit of extra thought to how verses 8 and 9 might be applied:
“Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honourable,
whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is
commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of
praise, think about these things. Keep
on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in
me, and the God of peace will be with you” (NRSV).
It’s not a passage for thrill seekers, but I feel confident
that it is a passage for peace seekers. Do the good stuff you can do! How different would the world be if we all
simply exercised that ability? I
guarantee you it would not fix everything, but it would fix some things. And I want to be clear, this is neither a
cop-out for myself nor a statement to let you off the hook, because I totally
get that it sounds cliché. If either you
or I have the power or the passion to do huge things that impact the world, we
had better be doing them! But the small
stuff, too… all of it… because if you’ve ever been in a crowded place, you know
it gets pretty loud if everybody is whispering.
L.
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