A Day To Be Brave

With most every day of our lives
we are faced with certain challenge.
Each challenge manifest of it’s own
unique reward, risk and consequence.

Never do we know the exact quantity
of challenge a day will provide.
Nor do we know, with absolute certainty,
what ends will be met.

Often challenge will prove to bring
success, encouragement or enlightenment.
Yet challenge may also bring defeat, disappointment
or even despair.

When we are face with consequence, such as
defeat or despair, we must allow 
that this is a special day.
This is a day to be strong, stout of heart,
a day to be brave.


S. David Patterson, November, 1995