If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.