Courage

Here are some thoughts from Avery and Henry today that I thought were pretty cool to share.  They were working on writing a first draft of an essay on courage since a lot of the books we are going to read in our homeschool curriculum have courage as a theme.  Touched my heart as I read them and hope you enjoy their thoughts.  

Courage - by Henry Greenwood

Some people struggle with courage.  The dictionary says that courage is the ability to do something that frightens one.

Courage is hard because you have to be brave.  I think that my family had courage because we moved to Africa for a year.

You might not think this was hard but we moved halfway across the world.  We left our dog, friends, and house.  Our family came here to help people we don't know.  It is scary to have a new house and school.

Courage is hard but I was brave and it brought me to a great place.

Courage - by Avery Greenwood

Everyone has courage, you just have to search for it!  At least one thing in your life is brave, not all things are easy for us in life.  There always has to be a challenge to do.  The dictionary has really great definitions of courage.  1.  The ability to do something that frightens one.  2.  Strength in the face of pain or grief. 

Courage is brave like doing something you might fear.  Opening your heart and doing something big.  Doing the right thing even though you don't want to.  Trustworthy listening and trusting someone who's doing something courageous.  I think courage is pretty much doing anything big, to doing something you fear, or going through something hard in life.  I thought of a person to me that is very courageous.  Her name is Kyan, my best friend.  Kyan to me is courageous.

She has broken her arm before, that would be scary.  Second, she did gymnastics, which probably I could never ever do.  Third is she moved to a different place in Colorado, which was hard but I still see her a lot.  Then, she had to go to a new school which she said she cryed a lot and had to meet new friends.  That is why I think she's courageous. 

Courage is hard to do for people and I agree it's not easy but I know you always can make it possible and I know you can!  Anything is possible in life, anything, especially COURAGE!