When Your Greatest Strength is Weakness

This morning, I hear the Local Artist pray that our friend could “have the strength to rest” today.  The expression sticks; it takes strength to allow oneself to admit weakness, need, and dependence. Authentic folks display weakness.  They live in the beauty of weakness.  They confess they lack power and ability, and that makes them […]

It’s Like Victoria Falls

Last night, I show my daughters the footage from Discovery Channel’s Human Planet of the fisherman in Zimbabwe who brave a waterfall to catch their supper.  As the greatest source of natural power, Victoria Falls cascades down for 360 feet.  We watch, fascinated at the beauty and power of it.  It’s a sublime encounter just […]