LETTERS

Great leaders can move mountains. This is the first important thing, because mountains must be moved. Never in history has it been more...

O SAP OF LOVE In You I live and move and have my being Connected as the branch is to the vine O Sap of Love so warm, so strong, so...

HEED. LEAD. LOVE. Caught up as howl fights howl tribe by tribe, one million species quiet go extinct. Too much just "me" too little "we"...

FRANCIS Beneath the city lantern she stood fast, clothes tattered, hair disheveled, face the same. I handed her a Kind bar as I passed......

THE GREAT I AM Leader of promise, are you ready to start? What premises, filters whittle your view? What fuels your desire to serve from...

ROPE BRIDGE DANCING Come join me on this bridge all snaggletooth-- ropes worn to thread, foot panels not all there. Let’s each come speak...

READY TO CONQUER Thank You, Holy Spirit, for salvation In You I cast off all of my reserve You are my courage, strength, determination...

WHAT FINE LEADERSHIP Ironic what fine leader skills it took-- to mechanize destruction of our seas, to slash for coal 'til Appalachia...

LIVING WATER To the well went woman fallen, filthy Shackled, beaten down by the weight of sin Shamed, she knew certain she wasn’t worthy...

ANOINTING Will you find space for anointing Spirit to love you, guide you, help you to be brave? By other paths, hap you might achieve...

EVERYTHING OR NIL Across the globe hearts strive to lead lives worthy: Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, Jews. Christians, too, like...

LOVE EVERLASTING Simon Peter, fisher. Be disciple! Go away, Peter cried. I’m gripped in sin! Follow me, beloved-- fish for people! Lord,...

FIRST LOVE, THEN TRUTH The tax collect cheat, Zacchaeus the short, Caught sight of visitor, crowd forming ‘round. Up tree he scampered to...

SINNER SAUL TO SAINT PAUL With hate harbored for people of the Way, Saul hunted for converts to catch mid-flight To Damascus road he went...

Hey, God Hey, God, I’m pretty sure You don’t know me I’ve kept away from You as best I can Some folks say no sinner’s beyond Your mercy...

APPLES OF GOODNESS Apples of goodness, ripe and in season If plucked with pride could cast us from Eden Warned C.S. Lewis: the greatest...

I TOOK TO THE ROAD Though confusions, compulsions cluttered my soul I’d mastered contrivance to skip truth and such With casual cast of...

THE ARMS OF YOUR BELONGING I’ve wasted time on cheap and shallow pleasures I’ve chased for years the trappings of success I’ve sought to...

A GOOD LIFE To college he went, then to rising career Married, three kids, until tragedy struck Widowed, he wondered: "Where do I go from...

WILL THAT LIGHT When a bottle, well hidden, proves worst fears When a child’s diagnosis hangs like rope When a love-bond severs in...