Brave Heart

It is Easter Sunday.  And you are by your father's.  Probably enjoying a good morning breakfast with plans to see a rabbit or two today.  I am taking a moment's breath, having coffee and catching up on a few online t.v. dramas.  My heart is a little low on the inside because I miss both your smiles.  So I write you because the thought today has to do with Bravery.  How to be brave and what does it mean. 

It does not mean doing what others tell you or what others think is brave.  It does not mean doing the contrary of what should be done and challenging your sense of fear.  It means, doing what is right when the time comes that needs to be done, even if you are afraid.  Even if the fear has nothing to do with anyone else in the world but yourself.  But knowing that it must be done because the alternative would be untrue and that there is no other way to overcome the circumstance.  Bravery comes usually when you have exhausted most of your options and you must take the choices remaining.  And in the process, you are creative enough to still navigate through it in your own style, peacefully and thoughtfully.  Bravery comes from your heart and therefore, is and should always be driven by love.  The love for life.  The love for others.  The love for family.  And the love for all good things.  Because good things are what makes our lives worth while.  Even bad people who do things that seem evil do so because they believe in something that is good....at least to them that is their value and estimation of it.  But we don't live in a vacuum.  So bravery, as oppose to cowardice, means sacrificing and facing your fears to guide your self and those whom you love and those who love you and those who support all of these things together in a hot air balloon carefully navigated over open ocean with you in the center carrying all that weight.  Because bravery comes from the heart and it is based on love and should always carry other people through to safety.  Cowardice is based from the mind with a lack of the heart and cares only about your own interest and self.  Cowardice saves no one.  At the end of cowardice, you have left your heart behind and all the people that has loved you.  You are on an air balloon on your own because you were not brave enough to take the people who loves you with you.  In the end, you are on an island alone without love even though you thought that was originally what you were fighting for.  You just didn't have enough heart and bravery to do it the right way.  You see, my darlings, there is no short cut around bravery.  As there is no shortcut around love.  If you listen to your heart, and listen very hard, you will know what to do at the right time.  Be brave my love.  We can try to be brave together for each other.