Brave means truth
Brave means not caring but doing love anyway.
Brave means inner truthfulness
Brave means integrity over falsity
Brave means justice over fear
Brave means tell, even if no one understands or listens or wants to hear.
Brave means summoning every ounce of being into being
Brave means living beyond the mask
Brave means walking alone
Brave means being beyond expectations
Brave means cost, raw deep cost
Brave means sounds of love over silence
Brave means fighting through the preordained scripts
Brave means making your story happen
Brave means wrestling the demons in the dark, so you can be light in the day
Brave means changing course
Brave means change.
Brave means crying for the hurt
Brave means loving the woundedness
Brave means standing tall
Brave means owning your story in the skin you are in
Brave means truly being.
Brave means looking evil in the eye and pouring in love
Brave means looking in the mirror and saying I love you.
Brave means being still and powerful In the swirl of unconscious rage
Brave means faith
Brave means belief in love despite all the odds
Brave breeds love, breeds courage, builds power.
Brave.
Tag: integrity
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Brave Being
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On Praise of the Men who
On Parise of the men who
are trying to keep it together men,
The staying strong for others men,
The ones about to break men,
The ones whose needs come second, third or fourth,
The men who dont lash out or damage.
The men who listen and ask,
The men who say, sorry and Ill change men,
The men who create space for others men,
The men who cheer the women men,
The men who challenge the expectations men,
The men who protect their women men,
Those who continually self reflect and grow men,
Those who know their frailty men,
Who are aware of their strength – but dont use it men.
The step aside for women men
The calling out bullshit men
The challenge other men men
A shout out to the men who aren’t afraid to
go to therapy men
The men who
face their own reality
The men who do kind
The men who make the world a better place for others men
The men who show up
The men who value integrity
The men who dont blame others for what they did or didn’t do men
The men who dont stir up swirling drama
The silent types often, whose kindness knows no praise
The men who bring colour and spark and life to the world
The men whose word and work brings healing, truth and vibrancy
In praise of the men who stand up for justice – and get attacked for it men
The men who do vulnerable – for their own good, but cost too
So, on International Mens Day
Praise to the men who, give men a good name
Thank you.
For being you.
James Ballantyne 