Keep Calm and Take Courage: Cameron and Scott’s Book of Brave

Dear Cam and Scott

If I had to pick one word to sum up all the things I pray for you it would be courage.

Courage to stand up and be counted for Jesus when the rest of the world is laughing him off.

Courage to stand up for the downtrodden, the different, the teased.

Courage to stand up for yourself when you are the downtrodden, the different, the teased.

Courage to choose your attitude and your actions.

Courage to treat a lady with dignity and grace. Courage to be gentle and strong. Courage to put her needs above yours. Courage to get the hell out of there when the world is telling you to get naked. Courage to wait for her at the end of the aisle.

Courage to choose friends who honour God when the world is telling you to run with the pack.

Courage to face your potential and get busy living it. Courage to adventure and risk and dare to live fully.

Courage to drop the burdens in prayer and to worship in the storms and take up the easy yoke in a difficult world.

Courage to be like your Dad.

That’s what I pray. Courage.

Just a note – courage doesn’t mean there won’t fear. And courage doesn’t mean macho, it means moral. And also, courage is always going to be the path of most resistance.

So, we’ve started your own Book of Brave. We’ll write down the fears and we’ll pray. We’ll make memories of your braveness – all the times you chose courage above what was easy or popular or less embarrassing.

Love you my bears,

Mom

Xx

PS: I got the courage journal idea from a girl I was at school with. She’s now a super-mom and a super-blogger on the other side of the world, and I think she’s just great.