Courage
Courage
In today’s busy and competitive society, we recognise the importance of building courage and resilience in our children to carry on when things get difficult – courage to take calculated risks in their learning and to know that mistakes can help us learn in a deeper way. Also, enabling children to have strategies to call upon when things are difficult on an emotional/social level in their lives. Courage describes how we personally should act as people in the world.
Christian Interpretation
Courage is often about continuing to do what you would normally do even when faced with extraordinary situations. Christians believe that God asks us to offer our skills, talents and abilities in the face of adversity, and that he will use that courageousness to achieve great things. The word ‘courage’ comes from the Latin word ‘cor’ = heart.
‘Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.’ Joshua 1.9