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 to communicate with any person. I’ve […]
Tag Archives: spiritual awakening
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Feb
Feb
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 belief I had about myself, my […]
21
Feb
Feb
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 moment when you meet your […]
14
Feb
Feb
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 the ultimate moral action but a […]
07
Feb
Feb
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.
24
Jan
Jan
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 that generously generate love. Every human […]
Weekly Reflections
The Myth of Divided Loyalties, the Lies We Tell Ourselves and the Suck of Politics
10
Jan
Jan
In 1963, three years before I was born and two years after the US sent its first combat troops into Vietnam, CS Lewis would write, “The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.” More than sixty years later, his words […]
20
Dec
Dec
I used to love Christmas and the things that surrounded it. The luminous lights, the December decorations, and of course the tasty treats. Remembering a time before the Internet when you couldn’t buy peppermint bark in July and when Santa’s wasn’t competing with scary witches. Our years in America are no longer marked by the […]
08
Nov
Nov
When I was sixteen going on seventeen, our church youth group learned about the Appalachia Service Project (ASP), a Christian nonprofit ministry focused on the “eradication of substandard housing in Central Appalachia.” Growing up, I was aware that there were families who didn’t have the same standard of living we did, but participating in ASP […]
04
Oct
Oct
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.