God has stretched and expanded my capacity for courage. He started when I moved to Indonesia, and was intensified through hospitalizations and a mayday call when my hubby’s airplane engine lost almost full power.

Then God called my hubby to law enforcement and I got to learn courage all over again, a scar on his forehead from some stitches he received in the line of duty as a permanent reminder every time I look him in the face.

So I thought I knew a little something about courage. Then my oldest daughter told me she felt called to the military, and I have had to put my time and energy helping her get to somewhere that terrifies me. This is still in process.

God told me to write my story as a missionary, which took 12 years and a whole different kind of courage. And I thought I had l learned all the lessons.

But God has given me another one in the last few months. In all of our other adventures, we knew what our end goal was. We knew it would be hard but we knew what path we were on.

Currently we aren’t sure what is next for my hubby. God is pulling his heart back to aviation, and is helping all of those skills come back to him quickly, but we have no idea what God is going to do next. Which is unnerving in a whole new way. So we are taking steps into the unknown and waiting for God to show us the next step on the path. And I am currently trying to like the word ‘courage’ all over again.

How has God taught you courage?

Isaiah 41:10 NIV So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.