Feeling Valiant

By Stephen in Accomplishments, Everything is Spiritual

Being the most punctual and on-time person I know (hush up you parents that sit in the back-of-the-back-row seats at church on Sundays), I got pretty much the last spot in the Valiant Man course by Alan Meyer: a 10-week exploration and uncovering of the struggles and pitfalls of the monstrous and sadly taboo topic of a man’s sexuality.

Seeing as I missed the introduction night, I went into this blinder than Stevie Wonder. To make a leaking boat worse, they make you sign a form to say that you’re going to be there every single week otherwise you better have a pretty darn good gatecrashing-a-UFO-cult-meeting reason for being absent or you will be hung, drawn and courted (pun intended). If this isn’t enough to strike a healthy fear of man into you, please sign my Terminator DVD now.

Yet even with all of the above petty banter, three weeks into this course and I knew that God had nade me sign ten weeks of my life away for a life changing purpose. The topics in this course are so wide that you find yourself wishing your head was bigger so you could cram it all in. The part I think was the most rewarding for me was the discussion of the DVD content in the raw honesty of the small group hour. You soon find out you aren’t as strange as you once thought; others are fighting in the exact same war. *Singing* cos we’re all in this togetherrrr.

So then, does this militant (not really) course that actually has HOMEWORK (if you forgot what that word means, by all means go to dictionary.com right now) come with my personal recommendation? Well, in my opinion it is not only recommendable, but should be compulsory for any male. Whether you are Goliath, James Bond or Barack Obama – you should do it.

You won’t regret the choice. I didn’t.