Yesterday afternoon at the office, Terry and I rediscovered this picture as we were in between handing each other phone conversations, rewriting legal contracts with potential team members, and prepping for investor presentations for two parties highly interested in the current needs and future direction of our company.

This picture is all about documentation; someone in our company is snapping a picture of me while I’m snapping a picture inside a generator building; contingency and redundancy.

That particular day, I took hundreds of pictures (from a helicopter and on the ground, with my buddy Paulo’s camera) of every well site location, road, tree line, well head, pressure gauge, pipeline,  serial number, engine, compressor, vessel, chart, areas needing clean up, potential problems needing solving, and areas of obvious value for potential investors.

We documented and discussed everything at length before we made a decision to purchase the entire project, scattered over a few miles of Northern Canadian wilderness! We finally purchased the project and began to optimize the opportunity.

A year later (during the economic crisis), I took the time to write Clairvaux Manifesto. Book I is now complete, and readers can catch up on my personal odyssey of spirituality at work. Book II will be entitled Woodthorpe, and it won’t be about our company, as much as it will be Terry Woodthorpe sharing his past, present, and future – in real time, locally and globally.

We will buy existing oil and gas projects and production; what is worth thirty cents today will be worth a dollar, or more, in a year. We will do friendly takeovers of overextended private and public oil and gas companies, full of good people. We will build strong interdependent teams of high level leaders in various fields and disciplines. We will craft and patent breakthrough technologies in oil and gas, communications, banking, law, education, movies, television and music. Such technologies will be tested and developed within our own network before being released more publicly. We will establish a secure, healthy, and open governance.

Your money is your money. Your patents are your patents. Your ideas have value. Your friends have ideas as well. Your friends have potential patents as well. Your friends have money as well… How do we work together? How do we create collaborative, interdependent, and mutually reciprocal legal and financial structures ? How do we all benefit? How does what I have take what you have further? Hos does what you have help me take what I have further? Where are we going to take it all? Where are we all going together? What is worth all the work? What are our short term and long term visions, values, protocols and key result areas? What are the problems needing solving to accomplish the goals we are setting?

Haiti is presently the prime example of unprecedented global collaboration, where human lives depend on an unified front and expedited process… Keep in mind, current war zones and refugee camps are no different. Imagine, human lives depend on every decision we make individually and corporately. It’s not that difficult really, it’s simply time for us to take responsibility for the safety and well being of others. It’s not a Messiah complex; it’s the values we carry around in our hearts which effect and affect everything we say and do in our sacrificial lives of prayer and work. We have an excellent teacher!

This is a global vision where everyone wins! And contrary to popular experience, it is possible for good people to thrive together, and defend the widow and the orphan with their bounty. There are those who will disqualify themselves before they ever get to our table. My character and integrity is what is most important for me to maintain. Even so, this must be built in such a way; that it doesn’t matter who succeeds or fails; that it doesn’t matter who is in charge; someone else will rise up and keep things on course… humility is key.

What would happen if The Sermon on the Mount met The Starfish and the Spider met The Hacking Business Model?

We will work to release good people who won’t stay in the cages others have built. These creatives border on genius, they’re finding their way through the gauntlet. Get enough highly skilled artists together and it won’t be long before their abbeys of prayer and work are raised to the witness of the skies. The leaders of nations are already taking notice.

The saints are coming!