Tag Archives: God is Love

A (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 […]

Fear 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 […]

Rose 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 […]

Making 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 […]

Why 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 […]

Why 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 […]

Let’s Get Spiritual: Five Exercises to Nourish Your Soul

In the desert darkness of winter, the Light of the world appeared to me and my burdens were lifted. My life’s purpose clear as I came to embrace the Truth. This Prodigal child welcomed back into his Father’s fold. A soul no longer in isolation. A soul in restoration.     This February, twenty-two to be […]

Empire Medals: Why the Pursuit of Worldly Prizes Means Nothing

Last week President Biden awarded nineteen recipients with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. As one might expect, there was “outrage” from those […]