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August 13, 2020 - May 13, 2021
Be brave enough to be patient—not just outwardly, but inwardly.
Life is full of waiting seasons, and you can brave out the wait and do it well.
Don’t give up on life. Don’t give up on God. Don’t give up on yourself.
The deeper call for courage comes when you let go with nothing ahead to grab.
I have seen, over and over again, that to simply let go is a powerful catalyst God will use to move me toward the next best thing.
It doesn’t matter if the thing is good for you or bad for you—if it isn’t the best for you, you have to let go.
When it is time to let go, you know it.
Only in letting go are your hands free to grab on to the next thing.
It means that if you’re brave, you can walk through change with grace and hope that God’s promises are true and all things really do work together for good.
Brave people are okay with change because they remember that change is for our good.
Just remember—a brave person’s joy isn’t dependent on circumstances.
“Life is messy, hard, and weird. We don’t need to act surprised anymore.”
When you know who loves you, you know your safe places.
Brave people don’t let failure define them; they let failure teach them.
Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Trying something new makes you brave.
Brave people have courage because they know God loves them no matter what.
Please don’t let fear win.
God made me on purpose. God loves me unconditionally. God doesn’t make ugly.
Telling someone about your pain—whether it’s lies the enemy plants in your head or a devastating circumstance you’re wading through—is brave.
When you face the pain—look at it and call it what it is—you will begin to experience healing.
Darkness can’t hang around when it’s exposed in the light.
Perseverance builds character.
Brave people realize that we rejoice in our sufferings because it leads to perseverance and perseverance produces character, and ultimately, it brings us to the hope we have in Jesus.
Hope is worth fighting for.
Don’t quit trying to find the brave in your life.
Don’t quit! You’re on a journey.
we can be brave in the face of brokenness and pain and spiritual surgery because we know that God is good.
Discipline is the work done on the practice field so you are ready for the big game.
If you don’t make space in your life for play, you will burn out.
Brave people know that it’s not just okay to play. It’s healthy.
Your body was meant to move; it was not meant to be still.
You should be thinking about what you’re eating, not just inhaling.
You won’t meet your goals if you burn out.
Be brave enough to rest—knowing that you need it.
We have two options when we use our words: we can build or we can destroy.
Brave people use their words to heal.
Speaking with kindness about other people’s hearts and minds and bodies can go a long way to heal.
While we are capable of loving others to some degree even when we are drowning in self-hate, there is a freedom in love that comes with following the second greatest commandment.
To love someone is to believe in them. When someone believes in you, it changes everything—how you carry yourself, how you treat others, how you live day after day.
You have to love yourself to love others well.
The Bible challenges men and women to lead by example and also to teach and pour into those younger than they are, a few steps behind.
Brave people don’t just pour into their own hopes and dreams. They pour their wisdom and time and love into others.
Living for self? That’s easy. Living like everything you have is God’s (because it is)? That’s brave.
be brave enough to steward everything you have in a way that displays God’s great generosity.
This time I’ve been given it’s not mine.
Brave people offer their wisdom liberally to others. (Not opinions. Wisdom.)
Are you using your money in a way that honors Him?
Brave people let God love them and know they are equipped for all the ways to use their words to speak love.
When we put God’s Word in, diligently and routinely, the lesser things fall away.
Brave people speak love into the lives of others.
