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The message in this article is alive in the situation in my country. The youth can’t speak out cause the older generation has lost it’s moral compass. The ruling older generation is engulfed in corruption and they have used this (ill gotten wealth) to create worldly pleasures that the younger generation think they cannot live without.
Remember also that courage is a choice. A choice between standing up and fulfilling one’s mission, or sulking away and making compromises and excuses.
Ten years ago, I read Desmond Seward’s book, _Monks of War_, reading as I usually do with the purpose of answering burning questions that I had in mind. One of my main questions was how such extraordinary men were finally defeated. I had the false preconception that defeating warrior monks required men of equal and opposite courage. But I was wrong. After centuries of victories against extraordinary odds, the crusading monks simply chose to give up and walk off the job.
In the years since, I’ve observed a humbling parallel in my own life. Every time I made the courageous choice, my life became more difficult, but I survived and eventually prevailed. I was defeated only when I took the seemingly easier choice to do nothing or to compromise on principles.
Some of our shepherds will no longer care to talk about Truth … instead, cowardice will masquerade as ‘mercy’.
Stand strong, and remember what we were baptised for.
I am humbled by this wisdom.
Eric