Archive for April, 2010

I just received permission to post a portion of a note I received as my United flight landed in Calgary. Throughout the flight from Chicago, I was praying about the scope of the vision I’d been sharing this past weekend in New York, some of the very same stuff I’ve been seeing and hearing and sharing for a number of years, stuff all over the pages of Clairvaux Manifesto.

Prophetic and sustainable are two words perpetually marketed into  meaninglessness. Someone swoons, “That is so prophetic!” Really!? Please tell me how we’ve ended up entrenched in such ambiguity? And sustainability… for who, in what context, fulfilling which protocols, to what ends? But that’s just it… it’s typically all about “it” and not “who”.

Techniques and efficiencies are typically anti-human. It’s like the term non-profit, which usually comes across more like anti-profit. You can never be quite sure which direction Jezebel will come for your head; the prophet killer. It’s more than word games.

Without discernment, this could be a difficult picture to interpret. The flash from my camera is arching across a panoramic convex mirror at the Louvre in Paris, Darlene to my left.

One of the final stories in Clairvaux Manifesto took place on cliffs of Eastern Canada overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, and contains this snapshot,

I pointed to the eastern horizon and swept my arm overhead, pointing to the western shores of Canada. “God, take the answer to that prayer straight across this nation!” As I swept my arm overhead, cracking lightning streaked across the sky in line with my finger.