BCMSC13 Response::Great Writing and Black Thought

In his book Great Leadership, Antony Bell stresses the fact that great leaders are great writers. Whether this is an absolut fact is of no concern but what makes this statement of significant importance is the fact that every leader I've admired has been a great writer.  This considered, I use the term "great writer" to refer to the act of using the tool of writing in a great way.  For instance, as a group of staff engaged in a discussion with someone who has served as a prophet and teacher for the BCM movement, in rushes a staff with a paper and pen who quickly sits down and begins taking notes.  That is great writing.  Great writing is writing down moments, ideas, stories, memorable quotes, reminders, and notes that will lead to transformation.  Novelists, poets, article writers and the like are artistically and technically great writers and there are a certain few who fit in this group.  But "great writing"?  Anyone can do this.  All of us can write moments.
While on a mission trip in the Dominican Republic, where we played basketball with locals and presented the gospel, the team I played on was invited to play against a university team.  The game was intense and went to the last seconds.  Amazingly we won.  After all the celebration was over I ran to my journal and wrote a 3 line description of what had just transpired.  As I finished, I wiped some sweat from my forehead and smeared a few of the the words I had just wrote with it.  This was not a ploy to be weird or off putting, it was rather a way to put the moment on paper.  Now, every time I look at that journal entry I remember the excitement and energy of the moment and it reminds me of the personal transformation that resulted in that trip.  
After BCMSC13 I am excited to contribute to the black thinking of BCM.  I want to cultivate and develop black thought and ideas through great writing.  There are many ideas that are brewing in my mind and I am excited to write.  This blog will serve as a logging of thoughts, ideas, concepts and learning experiences from my perspective as a black staff as I journey to establish a strong InterVarsity presence in Pinellas County of Florida.