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Ernest Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber centers on an American on safari who shoots a lion bur does not kill it. Losing his nerve, the hunter refuses to go into the bush to stalk and kill the beast. After struggling with his conscience all night, he asks at breakfast to be allowed to hunt again. This time he finds a buffalo, stalks it, and successfully shoots it. The hunter, Wilson, "had seen men come of age before and it always moved him. It was not a matter of their twenty-first birthday," Hemingway wrote. The best way to recover a loss of courage is to quickly reengage what brought the loss, whether it is a problem we cannot solve, a temptation we cannot overcome, or a virtue we cannot acquire. Whatever causes our loss of courage and brings our surrender, we must confront it again and work to master it. Otherwise, we will be gored on the horns of the fear and failure that snagged us. Admitting our fear but refusing to flee from it, choosing instead to run directly at it, builds confidence.  Quote this article on your site | Views: 438 | Print | E-mail
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Lectionary Passages for November 23rd 2008
[Year A]
Proper 29(34)
Sundays after Pentecost
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100
Matthew 25:31-46
Ephesians 1:15-23
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