Fearless is joining a dating website after years of being cajoled by friends and family.
Fearless is speaking out about difficulties with people and groups in positions of power or influence when you think there are people being manipulated, abused or neglected
Fearless is continuing to speak out against abuses of power despite intimidation, because you know it is right and you have a voice.
Fearless is standing firm in your convictions in the face of bullying, rejection and even eviction from your home and community.
Fearless is believing in the God of hope and redemption even when you begin to lose your faith in the humanity and love of the Church.
Fearless is choosing not to believe you an unworthy part of God’s family.
Fearless is being gripped by the depths of grief- be it for a loved one or a situation- yet still choosing to wake up each day and take a new breath.
Fearless is moving alone to a suburb that has a notorious reputation.
Fearless is finally finishing a BA after six and a half years, despite multiple life-changing events and struggles.
Fearless is having a go at a job you have dreamed about doing, but have no idea if you can.
Fearless is purchasing your first tent and going camping for a whole weekend at a musical festival… when you have an aversion to mess and dirt and disorder. (and Fearless are the long-suffering friends who go camping with such a weirdo!)
Fearless is walking with a dear friend through their darkest valleys, no matter what.
Fearless is praying when all logic and reason says give up.
Fearless is being willing to say "I was wrong, I’m sorry and I love you".
Fearless is being humble in a world that demands ego.
Fearless is knowing when to speak up and when to quiet down to listen.
Fearless is seeing hope and possibility in the next moment.
Fearless is choosing to believe in yourself when all you’ve ever felt is unlovable.
Fearless is choosing to love. Period.
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A year ago I decided that I my resolution for 2013 was one word: Fearless.
I had a vague notion of pushing myself to be less trapped by fear in making decisions in my life. I had no idea that 2013 would become a fight. A struggle. A giant lesson in remaining fearless in the face of injustice, rejection, tragedy and the constant barrage of what life sometimes throws at you.
At the end of 2013, and in my weary state, I want to claim these lessons I have learnt about being fearless.
1 comment:
Thank you so much for sharing, Alison. This Rainer Maria Rilke poem is not seasonal but definitely relevant...
Autumn
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."
And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away from all other stars in the loneliness.
We're all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It's in them all.
And yet there is Someone, whose hands
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.
Rainer Maria Rilke
love Sime xo
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