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    Monday
    24Nov

    Coffee Church!


    Friday
    21Nov

    The Story Behind the Castro District Riot in San Fransico last week


    Wednesday
    19Nov

    stewards of death

     flying over the roofs of hospitals 

    slipping silently through keyholes and airvents

    they take their place in the corners of rooms

    Gallant everlasting giants

    beside hospice nurses

    and EMTs

    they silently wait beside smoldering cars 

    twisted metal

    and in the clinics where life only ends

    emaciated hands point to them as final breaths are drawn

    (smiling for no logical reason other than relief)

    battle-weary souls see them in glimpses

    fleeting thrushes of divinity

    they are millions in number each stronger than the hissing hoard of the abyss.

    strong, silent,

    a requiem of mysterious joy

    and the vale wears thin 

    toward battles end

    it is the victory dance of redemption

    they are far safer than we who travel on twilights path.


    Friday
    14Nov

    Betrayal

    One should rather die than be betrayed. It is considered the willful slaughter of hope. James dietz


    Friday
    14Nov

    Now this is classic baptist!


    Thursday
    13Nov

    I got a free workshop...

    on the plane from Ed Lamance.  Darlene's youth minister growing up.  He really stretched my brain about spiritual warfare. Such a mysterious blessing that we met and were able to spend 3 hours from Nashville to Birmingham to Dallas. I feel like he really gave me some hope, encouragement and ideas for dealing with very difficult issues we all face in life. It couldn't have come at a better time. I could write more about it but it would fall short of what happened in our conversation and his teaching. He drew diagrams on the vomit bag. (a metaphor in itself:-) One take away was the warfare that a Pastor sees and how important it is to pray and call it our when the pastor is confronted with it. I feel compelled now to pray differently and with much more passion for the people in my church and for me personally as I try to do the hard work of leadership.


    Thursday
    13Nov

    Now in Odessa