Jesus - 'Run toward your crucifixion, carrying your cross.' 'If you try to hold onto life, you will lose it. Only in risking your life, do you gain it.' Paraphrase with liberties taken.
MLK Jr. 'A person is not equipped to live, until they know what they would die for.' 'My problem is not the violent racists. My problem is the 'good' people that cower, and do not fight for right.' Paraphrase with liberties taken.
I will not do that. I cannot do that. I can't be a party to it. I'd rather die.
MLK Jr. 'A person is not equipped to live, until they know what they would die for.' 'My problem is not the violent racists. My problem is the 'good' people that cower, and do not fight for right.' Paraphrase with liberties taken.
Gandhi was explicit - for him, the one unpardonable sin was Cowardice, NOT physical violence, as he is always misrepresented. 'Give me a military man to fight alongside any day. Don't give me any cowards.'
Of the two only great psychologists, Alfred Adler said that the hallmark of mental/spiritual health was courage, and the hallmark of the opposite is cowardice. Adler was a Dr. of the Mind, of the Spirit, as am I. Adler did NOT view 'cowardice,' as a slander, a put down, as derogatory, and neither do I. He, and I, view it as a diagnosis of the most deadly disease of all.
I can't think of a word that more captures the Divinity of Jesus than Courageous. 'Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to Live just like Jesus Lived.' John (2nd letter). To be Courageous, properly understood, is to be Christlike. And, it is impossible to be Christlike, and NOT courageous.
I Live to unleash the Courage, the Christlikeness in me and others. I will therefor pay any personal price to avoid enabling cowardice in anyone Our Father places in my path.
I can think of nothing that better captures the Truth of America, and Americans today than 'cowardice.' There are at best 1 in a million that aren't centrally afflicted, dying from it, Dead by it. Virtually everything sanctioned by our sickest of all societies is an explicit shield used to hide this cowardice from OURSELVES - and nothing moreso that the ch'rch, cr'stianity.
I have the sense that my life, my path, my walk, my example is contributing in some miniscule way to an awakening of courage in few, tragically few, people.
I have the distinct impression that my relationship with some has had the exact opposite impact - that our relationship has been one factor in enabling deep cowardice; that it is one of the many factors enabling another to AVOID, courage - Christlikeness; to enable 'denial.'
