If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

Do you do this often?” Maggie asked. “Rescue people, I mean.” “Is that what we did?” Nicolas asked. He seemed amused. “Can’t say we’ve done much of it before, but after this we might have to make a habit of it. More fun than I’ve had in a while.

Victory requires a fight. But the greatest risk of all is that you won’t fight – that you’ll allow fear to keep you on the couch, with your talent buried in the ground and all of its multiplying effects dormant and dead.

When they see beyond the sky,When they know beyond the mind,When they hear the song of the Burning Light;Take these Gifts of My Outstretched Hand,Weave them together.I shall come.

The kingdom has come.It is no longer far off, it is no longer future. It is athand—reachable, touchable, present.

In my life, and in yours, may the graven imagescrumble before the Great I Am.

Salvation is not simply a matter of escaping theworld after death. It is holistic, and it is now (andalso later).