Weekly Reflections

The Heart of Love and the Soul of Life is Relational

There have been millions of words written and thousands of pictures painted that try to capture the essential essence of the human experience. Often these themes highlight our passions, such as adoration and abhorrence, greed and generosity, and death and deliverance. And yet, every book and painting remains outside [...]

When the Digital Age Stripped Life of Its Intimacy

I am Gen Xer (born 1965–1980). One of many life labels that’s been assigned to me. A moniker that describes something about me, without being unique to me like being born in the United States. What is distinctive when talking about my generation, is that we are the last [...]

To Feel is Human; To Feel Beyond Your Own Heart is Divine

One of my many favorite creators on Substack and X is James Lucas who posts about beauty and truth. Both of which I believe are attributes of the Divine. On a recent X post He shared Roman epitaphs created for their dog’s tombs. One of them hit my heart [...]

The Myth of Understanding Reality as Paradox

At fifty-nine, I know I’m blessed to have the gift of time and the means necessary to allow me to pursue my heart’s passions as opposed to my past profession. This allows me to think a lot about whatever this is. This being life or awareness of this reality; [...]

Resisting the Urge to Run From the World

I find people, particularly in large numbers, exhausting. It’s not that I don’t like humans or even love some of them, but as a species a little homo sapiens time goes a long way for me. Like a monk in the desert, I can easily go days without needing [...]

March 7, 2026

Waiting on a Prayer (That Maybe Has Already Been Answered)

It’s been almost six months to the day since my book, Finding God in Vegas: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening, was published. My testament to my old and new life recounted as I laid bare my heart and soul to friends and visitors. An excruciating expose exposing every false [...]

Control: Life’s Great Illusion

Why begins any spiritual journey, but surrender only happens when every belief you have about your life is interrogated and laid bare. When you humbly understand your limitations as a human. While acknowledging the self-deception that you’re in control of your world or even your own life. This is [...]

The Scourge of Moral Relativism: When a Culture Can No Longer Name Evil

The America I live in is physically ill, psychologically troubled and spiritually purposeless. Unanchored to any moral bedrock; unsecured to any ethical foundation. We’re a culture in deep despair and disappearing into death. Drowning in a sea of moral relativism and dying in ethical quicksand. Love is no longer [...]

Asking Why is Terrifying Yet It’s the Only Road to Truth

This journey to realize and claim our birthright as children of God only begins when we ask why. When we question the world. When our heart whispers to our head because intuitively it knows that something is very, very wrong within God’s good world.

Choosing a Faith Rooted in Love Not Ideology

We all have a faith, even those who profess no faith. Faith isn’t just about believing in the unseen; it’s about believing in what you have seen. It’s about your motivation to get out of bed each morning. It’s about persevering through struggles and setbacks. It’s about holding onto [...]

The Selling of Fear: The Salvation of Love

We live in a world that only seeks to sell us stuff. Everything from status to salvation is commoditized to try and separate us from our finite time, labored wages and our singular standing as children of God. Divinely created not to be mere objects that consume, but subjects [...]