Bravery: or "YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO UNTIL YOU HAVE TO"

Or as my wife says: "Learning to face your fears". That's really what bravery actually is: learning to face your fears.

It's sort of like when you are a child and and you imagine a crocodile under your bed and you are screaming. Then you look under the bed and cannot see the crocodile that you are afraid will eat you.

For me, I had a recurring dream of being chased by lions while falling through monkey bars on a playground where the monkey bars kept going through my body as I fell in a never ending all in my dreams.

We all have these childhood terrifying dreams and worries about something under our beds trying to eat us and kill us. This is pretty normal.

How did you deal with all of this?

I think most of us just grew out of these kinds of dreams to another kind of dream. maybe puberty hit and we were attracted to whoever we were attracted to and then we fantasized about this person or persons in our dreams from then on. 

The Scary dream above that I'm recounting was at about age 9 or 10 years old that I had many times. But, by age 12 it was replaced with dreams of girls I met or teachers of mine (lady teachers) and stuff like this.

But, in the end, Bravery is "You don't know what you can do until you have to!"

In other words life just keeps up coming with things that you and I could never imagine in a million years, doesn't it?

So, in the end it's "What can you survive and keep going?"

In some ways that's the real issue isn't it.

I have succeeded in taking the attitude of an Adventurer. Other people might survive their lives taking other attitudes. Being an Adventurer worked best for me.

Because "What is an Adventure really?"

It's a difficult situation well managed so you can then tell stories about it and laugh with your friends about it all later.

That's actually what an adventure is.

By God's Grace