As I began to write about my story, I realized not only my deep devotion to the material world but the lies that I believed to sustain my faith in stuff. Lies that sustain the modern world, particularly in the west. Lies that have always deceived us.
Category Archives: Weekly Reflections
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Sep
Sep
I’m days away from celebrating my fifty-ninth birthday. Ready to take my final stroll (running seems so unnecessary), across a decade that’s been less than fabulous. My fifties have been tumultuous, terrifying and troubling. A decade of distress marked by being laid-off twice (something I’ve never experienced prior in my life). The death of my […]
20
Sep
Sep
We live in a myopic binary world trapped in a malicious belief that other humans are either the oppressed or the oppressor but never both. There is no grey rainbow, only a black and white ideology of identity; victim and villain. An “us versus them” worldview predicated solely on my judgement or the soulless judgements […]
13
Sep
Sep
Social media was buzzing with outrage and opinions last weekend, like it does every day of the week, when a well-aged Phillies fan became irate over a home run ball that was hit into the stands by Harrison Bader of the Phillies. As the crowd scurried for possession of the battered ball, a father who […]
06
Sep
Sep
While I welcome everyone to my writing, because that is the nature of love, this reflection is specific to my brothers and sisters who call Jesus Lord. Words long overdue, but ones that now require revelation. Revealing not only my heart, but matters that trouble my heart as a believer in the body of Christ. […]
23
Aug
Aug
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 […]
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, […]