welcome April 7, 2003 Issue

Models of courage

Warren Bolon

Early In The Morning of March 20, Baghdad time, US forces struck Iraq. At times like these we're more keenly aware of courage and the courageous. Soldiers, sailors, and pilots carry out dangerous assignments. Rescuers endanger their own lives to save others. These men and women deserve to be known as models of courage.

But courage isn't limited to acts that attract a thicket of reporters and photographers. Courage in its moral and spiritual dimensions is actually something far more elemental to us than is the so-called psychological or physiological "fight-or-flight" instinct. We have a transcendent source of strength, courage, and endurance, as Richard Bergenheim explains in the lead article this week. Accessing this source—feeling God's presence and control—is as natural to us as "yielding to the sunrise," in a phrase from John Selover's page 18 response to recent concerns about new contagions.

Acts of common courage so often go unnoticed, like the acts of kindness and goodness occuring daily around the world.

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