Courage

Every day we use courage, it takes courage to get out of bed each day to face the challenges that meet us.  On our own we do not have too many problems, it is our interactions with people that challenges us the most.  I remember when I was 19 years of age planning in my mind how I could escape from people and live on my own, how much money I would need and how long I could survive, I figured not very long a couple of years at the most, so I decided to put it on the long finger.  It was a last resort mental plan, in the meantime I would take it a day at a time and survive the best I could.  I grew up in the Catholic Faith and at a very young age I became very fond of praying, the nuns at my local convent taught me to pray for the poor and the conversion of people to Catholicism and for the salvation of my soul among other things.  I found prayer gave me something I couldn't get anywhere else, it gave me a sense of hope, I felt like someone was really listening to me and of course there was that one occasion when I felt that an experience I was about to be given was too unbearable for me and it miraculously disappeared.  Thankfully over the years my courage grew along with a lot of other qualities that I didn't know I had until I exercised them, but if I did have interaction with people in my daily life I would not have had opportunity to exercise my innate courage.