Tom Mohr
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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Rising Leader Series: Week 40 - Chance
THIS TOO IS JOY Best we not seek a predictable day, for life’s meaning is found in the detours Every twist bequeaths its fruit, come what...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 41 - Conscience
SHOW ME THE TRUE One hateful comment sparks a hate-filled trend; contagion grows in righteous fury spires. One love-response to the hate...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 42 - Challenge
MOTHER DEER A nature photo caught my heart today Mother deer, split-second before leopard’s teeth Serene because her two fawns had run...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 43 - Call
FROM NIGHT TO LIGHT I found more comfort in control than trust Protecting my self-interest like a hawk I counted the world unsafe and...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 44 - Commitment
STEP UP If, when God asks for more than is convenient, And claims some of the downtime of your day, What depth will you reveal in your...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 45 - Gifts
OSCAR ROMERO Romero was appointed archbishop To toe the line in poor San Salvador Everyone thought he’d keep low and kiss up To the...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 46 - Gaps
HUMBLE SCRAPS I just spent twenty minutes with head bowed down, seeking my God in contemplative prayer. But mind hopped around like a...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 47 - Growth
NO ONE MOMENT There was no one moment when I found myself. Just a two-forward, one-back together-walk with God. Words from soul; book...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 48 - Grace
HAL LANCE’S SONG A stroke cost Hal facility to speak Except in raspy, out-of-kilter blurts Each step confessed a hard-won new technique...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 49 - Fire
MISSIONARY'S EULOGY We stand by your casket– remains of the Earth Your life just a memory– carried treasure For forty years you stayed,...
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