• Meet Trucker Frank. I like this guy. Incidentally, Fairport, MO, the small town that they drive through is about 45 miles from my old home town in Missouri. Thanks: Steve Knight @ Emergent Village and Jeromy Johnson @ The Mending Shift
• Cloverfield and Emergent. This is an excellent characterization of the movement and those reacting to it. Thanks: Leadership Blog
• Friendly Disagreement. I had lunch with my neighbor yesterday. We disagree on most anything related to church or politics, but agree to be friends. Now that I am no longer a diehard conservative and believe in listening to anyone who might have some helpful input on an issue, I have become a liberal hippie in the minds of many of my family and friends. There are worse things I could be called.
• Weird Dream. I had this strange dream (Is there another kind?) in which a church I went a few years ago had fallen on hard times and was asking for my help as a consultant. I thought about writing my suggestions here, but I want to focus more on the future of the church and the positive.
• Celtic Prayer. I love it! Thanks: JR Woodward @ Dream Awakener

This is Brendan’s Prayer Before Setting Sail

As you move forward in the journey of following Christ, and risk things for the kingdom of God, then this might be your prayer as well.

Shall I abandon, O King of Mysteries, the
soft comforts of home? Shall I turn my
back on my native land, and my face toward the sea?

Shall I put myself wholly at the mercy of
God, without silver, without a horse,
without fame and honor? Shall I throw
myself wholly on the King of kings,
without sword and shield, without food
and drink, without a bed to lie on?

Shall I say farewell to my beautiful land,
placing myself under Christ’s yoke?
Shall I pour out my heart to him,
confessing my manifold sins and begging
forgiveness, tears streaming down my
cheeks?

Shall I leave the prints of my knees on the
sandy beach, a record of my final prayer
in my native land? Shall I then suffer
every kind of wound that the sea can
inflict?

Shall I take my tiny oracle across the wide,
sparkling ocean? O King of the
Glorious Heaven, shall I go of my own
choice upon the sea?

O Christ, will you help me on the wild
waves?