...The margins around the lines were sentinels giving fierce protection to the unfathomable that happens between language and a singular heart and mind.....

John Blase. devotion.

 At lilac evening I walked...feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night. 

Jack Kerouac. ON THE ROAD.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Old Testament scholar, Walter Brueggemann, said that if we want to teach and preach a subversive Gospel, "The key is not to be detected too soon." Why? Because theology from below is often experienced as a threat by those from above. This should not surprise us. Even Jesus' first sermon ended badly.

Center for Transforming Mission.