Clairvaux Manifesto, page 29

(quote) Spirit; Geist; Pneuma; Rhuah; Breath. When we seek God like a drowning soul longs for air, we’ll find God. In the beginning, God got down into the dust and breathed the shell of a man to life. Second time around, God himself became dust. When does God breathe life into himself? Who is God that he should need and receive breath from God’s self? God humbled himself in every way. Mary nurtured God. Joseph, his surrogate father, needed to obey an angel to save all their lives. From his first breath, Jesus of Bethlehem was a thirsty little refugee clinging to the edge of the human condition.

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Clairvaux Manifesto, bottom of page 54

(quote) Post-moderns are confused moderns with pre-modern longings. There are some things God has never changed and never will. We are all coming out of a season of staging and alignment where many counterfeits have overextended themselves and been exposed as spiritual frauds; liars. In Zechariah’s prophecy, the same God who heals the land in a single day (Zec 3:9) cuts off three shepherds in less than a month (Zec 11:8). Establishing circles of quiet is a serious business and an ancient practice.
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