Discouragement – Courage, Determination and Persistence

We need not define discouragement. We’ve all experienced it sufficiently to understand it in all of its many variant and rather dark forms. Discouragement has come our way, and it will come our way again. Sometimes it’s rather diminutive, passive and rather soft. At other times it’s monstrous and entirely debilitating. In whatever way it comes, it comes, and it will come again.

Courage, determination and persistence remain three fundamental keys in battling the rogue and cancerous monster of discouragement. More than being ready and potent weapons in the battle against discouragement, they propel us both through and then beyond discouragement. As such, they are commanding weapons that we would be wise to become intimately familiar with.