While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” Have you ever stopped to consider the import of these first words of Jesus to the disciples? To be honest, I rarely have. Maybe it’s because the story is so exciting and I get caught...
Professor Risk and the Art of Leadership
posted by DJL
I found this short video on risk very helpful in thinking about the decisions we are called to make everyday both in our individual lives and as leaders. (Okay, first of all, I love that Cambridge has a “Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk” and even more that David Spielgelhalter, the professor in question, has been nicknamed “Professor Risk”!) I think it’s important because we are sometimes tempted to believe that if we are careful enough, or precise enough, or cautious enough, we can avoid risk. Indeed, often we are tempted to believe that our job as leaders is to avoid risk. But as Professor Risk points out, every...
Luke 24:33-35
posted by DJL
That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together. They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the...
Water Lilies
posted by DJL
There is something so irresistibly sad, or melancholy, or nostalgic, about Sara Teasdale’s poem “Water Lilies” that I find absolutely haunting. Actually, none of those words – sad, melancholy, nostalgic – is quite right. And maybe that’s what I like about this poem: it evokes a...
Luke 24:32
posted by DJL
They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us? I love this part of the story and this exclamation in particular: “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the...