Black brush script lettering on a white background reading be strong and courageous, with the reference Joshua 1:9 beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.

Be strong and courageous lettering design

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows the phrase be strong and courageous written in flowing black brush script on a plain white background. A smaller line below reads Joshua 1:9 in uppercase capitals and numerals. The lettering uses varied stroke thickness and soft dry-brush edges, and the text is centred with generous white space around it.

Lettering Quote Bible verse Script

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Your father's brushes are still in the jar by the potting bench, bristles down, the way he liked them. I have not moved them since the funeral because I could not decide whether moving them was a kind of forgetting. The frost came early this year and took the dahlias in one night, black at the stems, so I have spent the week cutting back what was left and saving what I could in paper packets.

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I found the card you left in the seed tin. Your handwriting was never good, but the ink was your father's, a stick he ground himself, and you had written the words in his slanting capitals: BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS. Under it, in pencil, you had put the reference, the way he used to when he wrote out instructions for the allotment. I laughed when I read it, and then I did not, because you had not been asked to write it at all.

Here is what I know about the coast road. The gulls will be louder than you expect and the rent will be higher. Ask the man at the chandler's for Eileen, not for the manager, because Eileen remembers everyone's first boat. Take the blue coat with the torn pocket and put the packets in the inside one so the damp does not get at them. Sweet peas go in February, not before, whatever the catalogue says.

I am keeping the brushes. You can come back for them at Christmas, or you can send a card with the lettering on it, and I will know you are steady. The seeds are labelled. The shed door sticks in wet weather, so lift it as you push. Your loving mother, Ruth.