Aragorn: “Hold your ground! Hold your ground.”
Aragorn: "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me."
Aragorn: "A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day."
Aragorn: "An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!"
Aragorn: "By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
Aragorn (serenely): "For Frodo."
[Waving his sword, Aragorn runs towards the orcs, yelling.]
Courage is not an absence of fear. It is the embracing of that fear and overcoming it with a higher calling, a higher cause - for loved ones, for friends and fellowship, for those who come after us, for the Gospel, for Jesus.
I am convinced that besides the hope that comes only through Jesus; the other greatest need of the world is courageous leadership. We need men who will walk before us, take the charge to point us in the right direction, bleed for a higher cause, to inspire us to move beyond ourselves and aspire to fulfill the calling God has called us to.
Boldness is contagious. It just takes one person.
May each of us courageously lead the life God has called us to.
Ollie
January 2007
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