Sometimes the weak become heros because they were wise and meek for long enough to achieve victory.
Sometimes the strong stumble when they forget that their strength had been upheld by wisdom and meekness.
Tag Archives: courage
Four Steps to Going Over the Cliff
1. Get close enough so that it would take two more steps
2. Make the leap in your head
3. Take one long slow step so that you’re at the edge
4. Look over the edge—and turn back
So it’s that you’ve been on edge and back
Side notes:
This is what one particular child I know does. She just loves testing the limits, or more likely, your resolve. Trying perhaps to make sure you’re really really serious about her not playing tablet games when homework is still pending.
Don’t go to the edge if you don’t mean to jump. A rephrase of a Yorùbá proverb that goes something like: “If you don’t mean to taste something, don’t go smelling it.”
She fought and she cried….
Strength and weakness walking together side by side.
The voice of courage loud, spoken by virtue, desire.
She fought and she cried, and she fought and she cried,
and she fought and she cried, all the way through.
She finished well because she finished.
