00:00The Chibi News Daily Reflection
00:04Hi, I'm Richard England, Vicar of Crofton Parish.
00:10What's the bravest thing you've ever done?
00:12Maybe you jumped out of a plane.
00:14Maybe you stood up to a bully or served in a conflict zone.
00:17Maybe you told someone you loved them, not knowing what they'd say back.
00:21Being brave is often difficult and sometimes costly.
00:25History is riddled with the stories of people who went along with terrible things
00:29because they couldn't find the courage to resist.
00:33Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who died in the concentration camps, put it this way,
00:39silence in the face of evil is itself evil.
00:43God will not hold us guiltless.
00:45Not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act.
00:50One of the virtues the Holy Spirit grows in us is courage.
00:53Not being impulsive or overbearing, but learning to be brave.
00:58Courage is knowing right from wrong and choosing to do right, even if no one else is.
01:04But no positive change has happened in the world without someone being brave enough to choose it.
01:10God will notlive it.
01:33God will not live it.
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