With you, I continue to pray and act from a deep sense of relationship with the people of Haiti. It’s also been a week of responding to enthusiastic (mostly) response to my letter, “Where Is the Hope after Copenhagen?” within media interviews, correspondence, and conversation. Yet most of my reflections have been interior—from within a winter Courage to Lead, delving deeply into the winter paradoxes of dormancy and deep growth; light and shadow; death and life.

Our lectionary scriptures from Sunday assure us of how God’s abundance and extravagance bring life—and we hear these words in the midst of death on an unimaginable scale. In pain about Haiti and the dis-ease of the earth, we respond with the resources of faith, enabling us to turn from pain and paralysis to hope and action.