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The Rising Leader Series: Week 20 - Disillusionment
WHY, GOD? Ukrainian Alisa, nine years old, Was scrambling with her family ‘cross the bridge Weighed down by pack and bundled ‘gainst the...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 21 - Depression
THE PIT A quick lightning strike of thunderclap sorrow Blunt struck her to the ground as if by thief Then stole her meager claim on...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 22 - Despair
PRODIGAL’S REUNION The younger son demanded half estate Then fled to distant country to debauch To teach himself new levels of self-hate...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 23 - Behind the Mask
UNMASK What Mardi Gras, Halloween life you lead! Veiled behind intricate, desperate mask Vanity’s folly would be to succeed In your...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 24– Beyond Myself
TURN OVER GENTLE Turn over gentle now, gentle that loam Clay covers my soul; it traps me alone Underneath it, I’ve nursed fears on my own...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 25– Behold the Beauty
I JUST LEFT I just left; she was on her bed-on-wheels Surgery beckons; they've come to roll her in Hope, fright, powerlessness, plea--...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 26– Become the Beauty
DIVINE BEAUTY Maples dewed and firelit welcome Fall’s day Canyon grand enacts its vast color-play Arm-cradle warms by breath of sleeping...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 27 – Sacred Democracy
THE FLICKERED TORCH OF LIBERTY In the end, America’s built on trust– that servants serve, that votes are counted fair– that once the hot...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 28 – Democracy: Individual Liberty; Equal Vote
SACRED DEMOCRACY What shame I felt when witnessed Jesus flag waved high by mob that knocked down freedom’s door What pain to see my...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 29 – Democracy: Equal Justice
THE LAW, THE LOCK AND THE KEY By vote we choose the ones who write our laws By rule of law our nation keeps the peace Peace officers...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 30 - Democracy: Equal Opportunity
SHOULDERS OF HOPE Great-granddad landed young on freedom’s shore From street to street, sold coal in the city His son, my PopOps, sold...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 31– Democracy: Truth
IN DEFENSE OF JOURNALISTS We’ve lost them by the thousands o’er the years As broadcast news and papers shrink and die Replaced by...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 32– Diplomacy
THE DIPLOMAT’S PRAYER Dear God, our flag and theirs are waving hate Outrage has peaked; two calls to arms begin Do you not grieve as we...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 33 - Environmental Sustainability
EVENING PRAYERS FOR EARTH AND US Lord, remnant forest canopy please keep In Greenland, save the final sheets of ice African elephants:...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 34 - Economic Sustainability
THE WHOLE WORLD IN MY CUP Gold-touched was August’s morn as I rose. Bullfrog croaks joined cricket crepitations with finch-cheep,...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 35 - Social Sustainability
MAY OFFERINGS SAVE Forgive– I know not what starving children feel Nor mother, water vanishing from well Nor father, as crops fail– sheep...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 36 - Church: Encounter
IRRITATING NEIGHBOR An irritating neighbor called out “Welcome!” As I ran out my brand new home one day Handed me a pie-well-dressed,...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 37 - Church: Discipleship
AS SUN AND I ARISE As sun and I arise, my Lord, I greet You To share this bright new day in prayer before You Shine light on sin, that I...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 38 - Community: Race
TOWARDS A CLIFFTOP FLAG Next step, free solo, towards a clifftop flag, though footholds crumble– rainfall spurs the slip– she climbs...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 39 - Community: Charity
GOODNESS HIDDEN Priest and Levite averted eye as passed the sorely wounded, near-to-death Jewish man It took a lowly foreigner outcast to...
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