“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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  • Truth and Precision – error … error …error

      1975 – Virginia Tech computer lab. A stack of punched cards 9 inches high or higher is in my hand, each with one statement of code. After waiting in line at midnight, I insert them into the feeder for… Continue reading

  • Trusting in Princes

    We either treat our leaders with blind trust and awe or with disrespect, contempt, and disgust. It is hard to find the middle ground where we honor them, recognize their limitations and humanity, and see them as temporary occupiers of… Continue reading

  • A Model for Leadership that Lasts

      In contrast to trust, dependence, reliance and subjugation to human leadership that always dies, even our own leadership with its termination date in the future, God models leadership that lasts. Do you want to leave a legacy? Check out… Continue reading

  • In the Eye

      What do I see when I look a person in the eye? Jesus saw people with their potential and their pain. He saw through their masks. He looked beyond their labels and arbitrary categories. His eyes were keen in… Continue reading

  • HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY LOVE GOD?

    The great test of how deeply our hearts are submitted to His will may come when we are called upon to love our enemies. Continue reading

  • Three Times

      Before the rooster crows, three times thou wilt deny.Three times you'll disavow my name and swear by earth and sky.Three times, not one or two or three,you'll vow we've never metThree times you'll protest, shout, and curse,three times, three… Continue reading

  • Somewhere, A New Day Calls

      The day calls.It cries with harsh urgency.It commands and harasses us into submission to get up and going …… yet, where?So …We pause.We wait.We connect and collect.We listen.We lift up our souls.Then we move. " Let me hear in… Continue reading

  • Moving Out with What You Have

    So… here is Jonathan's inventory … Audacious, if yet, tentative faith in God to save by many or by few.One sword.A friend. That was it and that was enough. What is in your inventory? " Jonathan said to the young… Continue reading

  • A Proof of Love

     “I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”   – II Corinthians 8:8 There is something within you that is full of sincere love, something that desires to… Continue reading

  • No More of This

    ".. He said 'No more of this…" and he touched his ear and healed him." No more of this … No more violence.No more retaliation.No more waiting for the moment of our calling.No more delay for redemption with all its… Continue reading

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