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Courage

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Announcements › Forums › Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? — April 10th, 2022 › Courage

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  • April 6, 2022 at 9:23 am #14534
    Murad A
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    I was feeling a sense of discouragement and began to work with Mrs. Eddy’s instruction on p. 417 of S&H:

    “Never tell the sick that they have more courage than strength. Tell them rather, that their strength is in proportion to their courage.”

    I decided to research the words Courage, Encouragement and Discouragement.

    Encourage: to inspire with courage, to invite it in.
    “make strong, hearten,”

    Courage: c. 1300, corage, “heart (as the seat of emotions),” hence “spirit, temperament, state or frame of mind, “heart, innermost feelings; Words for “heart” also commonly are metaphors for inner strength.

    Discourage: to deprive or extinguish courage; to dishearten; deprive of confidence.

    This study is helping me to find confidence and strength in that which comes from inviting in thoughts of Reality, Truth.
    And also to be mindful of animal magnetism (unreality), thoughts that work against the innermost heart in the attempt to extinguish it. As I become more mindful of these ideas I can feel the embrace of divine Love and also the strength to discipline my thoughts accordingly.

    “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us.” IJohn 5:14

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