Montview hosted a Leadership Event for Denver Presbytery last Saturday. Our speaker was Dr. Corey Schlosser-Hall. I want to share some of his lessons on life and change with you now.

Corey emphasized a new paradigm for progress and planning. With the antics of crazy handshakes and the music and images of the Irish rock band, U2, he helped us to recapture pieces of the children and teenagers we once were, filled with laughter, energy and passion, and then he began to speak of courage and wholeheartedness. Corey talked of the courage needed to live the abundance of love and opportunity that come to each one of us from God. He spoke of living with our whole hearts and letting ourselves see and feel and experience the true reality of this life that we can so often carefully, unconsciously and systematically deny. He called us to approach change and initiative first with this seeing, feeling and experiencing rather than with committee meetings on thinking, analyzing, and studying followed by more thinking, analyzing and discussing before change can begin.

As always there is an important balance to find between passion and the hard work of change. This balance is ours to find now as we look for the place of our church in this world of need. If you were at the lunch and panel discussion on January 26, you lived an example of Corey's message. His message is about holding hands in an unbroken line to the harmony of the gospel group, Honey on the Rock, as we did that day. It's seeing and feeling that " . . .we who believe in freedom can not rest, can not rest". May we find our way through the weight of necessary change, hand in hand, singing and moving with our whole hearts and with the tireless courage, passion and then the planning this will require. And all of God's People said, "Amen!"