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My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light
Way too much of my life has been about wanting to please people, particularly myself. Pursuing the approval or the admiration of others. Family and friends, supervisors and strangers. Wasted years of working overtime to inflate my own sense of self-worth by chasing things like standing, status, or stuff. A marathon we’ll never win because…
Read MoreA (Writer) Human Learning to Trust God
On a dark desert night in February 2022, I finally stopped running from God. Relinquishing my heart to God, as I embraced the peace that passes all understanding. A peace that had been elusive since my childhood. A peace that evaded me as a teenager, as I struggled with who God created. A peace that…
Read MoreFear is Our Foe: Love is Our Liberator
Fear, like desire, is one of evils most powerful tools. An existential scourge on all of humanity beginning with in the beginning. An ancient garden deception leading to the disfigurement and distortion of God’s good world and the humans created to control and care for it; our ancestors and ourselves. Creatures in rebellion because genuine…
Read MoreRose Colored Glasses: Only Jesus Saves
Like my false in faith in meritocracy, I used to believe that if I worked hard enough, I could overcome any situation particularly if it involved people that I love. Believing that I alone had the power to change the hearts of others. Blinded by my own heart’s desire with what I wanted, because of…
Read MoreHow My Memoir Happened
Authors note. As I begin the publishing process to bring my memoir to market (fall 2025), this seemed like an ideal time to share some of the stories about how this occurred. It was another bright blue, cloud barren summer day in Vegas. The Mojave desert propelling its furnace of hot dry winds across the…
Read MoreMaking Time About Something More Than Space
Like everything in Creation, God created us; you and me. Creatures crafted from clay and conceived through Divine breath. God commanding the nothingness to become somethingness. Life as we know it and a life that will be made known. Planted in paradise, humanity found itself amidst the Divine. A rupture in the relationship when man…
Read MoreWhy Context is Critical and Intention is Everything
It’s a cold, gray and rainy day and I couldn’t be happier. This melancholy message might seem like a strange sentence to script, but I live in Vegas; and it’s been over 200 days since we’ve had rain; almost seven months. An ashen atmosphere dropping dust infused droplets on a hard and harsh habitat. Streetlights…
Read MoreWhat I Learned About God While Writing My Memoir
In June 2022, I found myself unemployed for the second time in my life. Both times happening in my fifties. In both instances, my role’s elimination was explained using elusive corporate double speak, like I used when I laid off people; when I ran the show or at least believed I did. The first…
Read MoreFaith Isn’t A Fairytale
In one of the three fairy tale versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, a juvenile offender named Goldilocks trespasses and enters the home of, you guessed it, three bears. Eating food that doesn’t belong to her, breaking furniture that doesn’t belong to her and sleeping in a bed that doesn’t belong to her; poor…
Read MoreWhy I Write: A Reminder to Myself
I never intended to spend my “retirement” years reflecting and writing about my faith and modern-day American culture. Instead, I assumed I would spend my second adult life just like my corporate adult years. Denying the reality of God, continuing to make my life only about me, and following the rules of the Empire to…
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