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There is no tangibility without vulnerability. That is the down side of incarnation. The message must be delivered to tangible thinkers in flesh as embodied truth. The upside is that vulnerability invites tangibility like no other force. Continue reading

  Where are you going?We ask ourselves.We ask the same of Jesus.Shall we skip the road with Him, dare ourselves, and walk with pebbles in our shoes? Call the pebble, "dare." How about it? What is the new road? Where… Continue reading

We have raised a generation on "reality" TV who believe that it somehow, actually represents reality. Some, young and old, have bought the notion that meanness, pettiness, ruthlessness, narcissism, lack of civility, and vindictiveness are norms for human communities to… Continue reading

In the hurry to worry I get nothing done, Continue reading

Jean Colombe (1430-1493)   Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord,… Continue reading

We get angry and then we get to choose what will become of our anger. Will we let God shape it into a force of loving defiance of the evil?  Will we let it reinforce our courage and resolve? Will… Continue reading

" … the land mourns …" I often drive around my city. Often, I mourn. I see all of this and more. God, please don't stop breaking my heart for the cities. Keep me tender and wounded within for the… Continue reading

  Shine, rising sun upon these steps I take.It is a dark world this morning, but it is morning.Early, comes morning and only hopeful people venture forth.The world is dark. Is it?Then why is it that I see the road… Continue reading

Father … I am a "dis-tractable" soul. You know that and I know that and I am amazed how You have accommodated that in me and taught me to manage within the margins of my "dis-tractability" to find a tract… Continue reading