One of my themes in the last couple years has been to try to live more out of my poverty, knowing that this is where God can work most powerfully and use me most fully. It is a poverty of not having a security in anything of my own. But rather such an emptiness of myself, that in my vulnerability and surrender, God may increase. Like John the Baptist prayed, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (Jn 3:30)