A time to speak...

Behind our words... behind our warning, our explaining, our urging....

words of the Lord to His people:


'Get you up to a high mountain... lift up your voice with strength, O herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities: “Behold your God!”'

'Him we poclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom...'

'Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom...'

'Pray for us that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ...'

'Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt...'


(from Isaiah 40:9; Colossians 1:29; 3:18; 4:3,6, ESV)

On Mark 1:35

Still darkened, Galilee's hills are graced
by their owner's feet in steady pace,
till he stops, and then his knees they know
for hours, until these two lights show:
the sun above in a new day's race;
the Son below with a new day's grace
to display his Father's word and will
to his brothers bound in darkness still.

(written in 1980)

For the Few --- "A Real Man of Prayer"

Stirred and challenged by -- and asking God for -- this reality:

"What then is a real man of prayer? He is one who deliberately wills and steadily desires that his intercourse with God and other souls shall be controlled and actuated at every point by God Himself; one who has so far developed and educated his spiritual sense, that his supernatural environment is more real and solid to him than his natural environment. A man of prayer...is a child of God who is and knows himself to be in the deeps of his soul attached to God, and is wholly and entirely guided by the Creative Spirit in his prayer and his work. This is the only really apostolic life. Every Christian starts with a chance of it; but only a few develop it.... There is nothing that you can do for God or for the souls of men which exceeds in importance the achievement of this spiritual temper and attitude...." (From E. Underhill's "Concerning the Inner Life")