If you want to build a ship

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work. Rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.   Antoine De Saint Exupery


If the Son set you free, you are free indeed. John 8:36


You are either alive and proud or you are dead,
And when you are dead, you don't care anyway.
And your method of death can itself be a politicizing thing.
So you die in the riots.
For a hell of a lot of them, in fact, there's really nothing to lose -
almost literally, given the kind of situations they come from.
So if you can overcome the personal fear of death,
which is a highly irrational thing, you know,
then you're on the way.    Steve Biko

Following God is spoken of in two very contrasting ways.
It is an invitation to come and die and an invitation to come and live.
It is an invitation to forsake all and an invitation to living abundantly.
It is to live in obedience to only One and it is to be a servant to those around you.

Most of us live as though it is one or the other.
Few of us live longing for 'the endless immensity' of God.
Without such longing, our religion is false and our witness to His Presence lifeless.