(Originally at Prodigal, but seen at The Corner)

If we do have faith that death is not the end, can we face the possibility of organisational death, and in that very encounter discover renewed life in ways that we might never have dreamed? Such an encounter will require less activism and more quietness, fewer solutions and greater preparedness to live with powerlessness and impotence. It will require us to remain at our posts and continue in our callings, and finally, perhaps, even cling to the wreckage…”

---from Hope for the Denarrated Self: Revisiting a Decade of Douglas Coupland. by Jim Barr