I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.