These past three years of writing sometimes feels like I’ve exiled myself from the only world I have known; and I did. No longer participating in life’s race to accumulate, instead emptying my heart through writing my memoir while sharing smaller scaled stories on my website and on Substack. Writing became both my resuscitated passion […]
Category Archives: Weekly Reflections
16
Aug
Aug
Before you read any further let me make a disclaimer. These written words are borne out of self-reflection not a saintly rebuke. My life has been both a litany of love and a lesson in non-love. Like all humans I have failed and fallen and floundered. I am a man whose been humbled by life […]
09
Aug
Aug
For most of my adult life, I professed that I had no faith; well, at least in God. A bold and belligerent bellow that was big headed because of my own blind spots. An ego stoked by wealth, worldly success and wanting to evade the examination of my own earthly expiration. Mellowed by maturity and […]
02
Aug
Aug
I know I am a blessed man even as my body breaks down; battered and burdened by time. My life measured in decades of days. An earthy existence that’s eluded millions and millions of my brothers and sisters who never attained the years I have been given in this dimension. As I near the last […]
26
Jul
Jul
I recently joined a writing group of strangers after being “encouraged” to do so by my dearest friend; no, she’s not an atheist. Just the opposite, she believes deeply in the eternal love of God. A love so deep and so wide that nothing can separate us from soaking in this ceaseless sea of life, […]
19
Jul
Jul
The beginning words of the Bible describes how everything and everyone came into existence. Not with battles or bugles but through breath; the breath of God. The entirety of the universe established through God’s exhaled words. This belief in God’s spirit to create life itself echoed in the creation of humanity. God breathing life […]
Weekly Reflections
Maintaining Faith When Your Government Deliberately Lies to Cover-up Crimes Against Children
12
Jul
Jul
For the majority of my life, before my spiritual awakening, I rarely questioned our government. Believing that they would do no harm. Believing that policy was never about the self-interest of the few, but the sole interest of the many. I was wrong; very, very wrong. Just like I was wrong about my faith in […]
05
Jul
Jul
As my years on this planet have accumulated, so has the stuff I’ve amassed. Even though I’ve made numerous attempts at “downsizing,” my success is always short lived and short of any sense of minimalism. I’m still hanging onto stuff because of my sentimentalism and sense of sacredness for things that remind me of those […]
28
Jun
Jun
I believe that the Bible is God’s story. A story of love and life, grace and generosity, mercy and madness, warning and wisdom, inspiration and insight. Words just as relevant now as they have always been. Stories that lead us to the good life because they lead us to God. Books that have shaped cultures […]
21
Jun
Jun
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit my family in Chicago. This was the first time seeing them since my father’s funeral in November 2023. People that I dearly love who are now 1800 miles away from me and my little family. People that I dearly love who will always be with me […]