Snow Melt

Encouragement and Courage

Istijlál (Majesty), 9 Sharaf (Honor), 165 BE – Thursday, January 8, 2009 about 4:13 AM Pacific Time

It’s a good morning in Las Vegas. I bit on the chilly side, but a good morning anyway. When I logged into writing.com this morning, the newsletters were in my box. The first one I read today was the Spiritual Newsletter. The subject this week is courage. This was just what I needed this morning.

I woke up feeling like a failure this morning. This feeling usually strikes me of a afternoon or sometimes of an evening. It passes and then comes back the next afternoon or evening. Then about once a year it hits me in the morning, this usually means it’s going to stay all day.

I know when the feeling first arrives, that I need to do something about, but I usually let pass. If I let it pass and don’t confront it by taking action, then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and I let it affect my work. I suspect that’s been the problem for the past few days. The reason I can’t seem to get anything done.

Let’s face it, is my thought you’re a failure and no matter how hard you try you’re going to fail. So why make the attempt?”

The newsletter encouraged me to have courage. In case no one noticed part of the word encourage is courage. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that if I find something encouraging then I’m going to have courage.