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not so COURAGEOUS

If I had ten dollars for every time someone commented on how "courageous" I was for handling the changes I've experienced in this past year, I could buy a year's supply of Dunn Bros coffee beans. Truth: I am not so courageous, and neither are most people. "Press on" is an operating system, not a character quality. Fact: Numbness resembles courage, and allows people to do things as if they were robots.  Courage is a real thing, but if I've had any courage this past year, God graciously flooded me with it to complete the next task.  And the next. Like deciding whether or not to move. And then deciding to say "yes" to the move, which resulted in a sold home. And then teaching a conference in Texas, flying to Minnesota, sleeping in my Minnesota home for one last time and then boarding a flight to Florida all within days . Days . Saturday night I was flying from Texas to Minnesota. Sunday night I was saying "farewell" t