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COURAGE
Finding the Strength to Stand
Greenville, South Carolina
A construction professional in Greenville discovers a serious safety problem. Speaking could protect people she has never met while threatening her livelihood and the business she built with her brother. Silence carries its own responsibility.
Biblical foundation: Esther 4:10 through 16
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What it costs to tell the truth.
Lena Ward has spent years building a construction company with Caleb, the older brother who believed in her before anyone else did. Then she discovers a serious safety problem he chose not to fully disclose.
Speaking could protect future residents, but it could also cost employees their jobs, destroy the family business, and fracture the relationship that shaped her life. COURAGE is a story about loyalty, responsibility, and finding the strength to act when silence would be easier.
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Inspired by Esther 4:10 through 16.
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Construction · Sibling loyalty · Safety · Professional responsibility · Truth · Livelihood · Courage under uncertainty
Scripture and story
Biblical foundation
Esther 4:10 through 16
14 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” 15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai, 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
The Inspiration Note reflects on accepting responsibility while consequences remain uncertain. It distinguishes Lena’s professional crisis from the danger facing Esther and her people.
World English Bible (WEB), Classic edition. Public domain.
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