It’s tempting to dumb down your work or go for a shortcut or a quick hit. Worst of all, to give up. Please don’t.*
Seth Godin

Ah, thirty-eight to forty-two. They were the hardest years of my life. I almost left ministry.**
Older pastor

Ideas come to us with a simple joy,
But reality makes everything so much more complex,
Even unrelenting and utterly perplexing,
Yet, if we are able to push through,
Discovering, Growing – becoming agents, not victims,
We come through to a place of harmony,
When good and bad, joy and pain
come together to show the next step.

I was thirty nine –
I kept going – but upping
the learning and exploring;
And, though I realised that it wasn’t what I really wanted to be about,
The crucible for dreamwhispering,
When I left, it was with greater clarity and a purpose –
I was leaving for something,
Rather than from something.

*Seth Godin’s blog: Crickets;
**Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt.