Weekly Reflections
A brief pause each week to consider what matters, what lingers, and what’s worth remembering.
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When I Realized My Career Added Nothing to the World
The most problematic person to be honest with is primarily ourselves. Particularly when we align our sense of self-worth to what we do for our daily bread. What we do for a “living” is often the first question we are asked by strangers and acquaintances. It’s how this culture [...]
08
Aug
Aug
Understanding Scripture as Sacred Sagacity not a Regimen of Rules
How we understand the world is how we understand ourselves, others and our faith; and yes, we all have a faith, even the most ardent atheist or apathetic agnostic. Every human needs purpose and perseverance to prevent a life of pointlessness. When we lack meaning in our lives we [...]
01
Aug
Aug
For My Friends Whose Journey Ended Far too Soon
As summer signals its send-off and autumn announces its arrival, the earthly equipment we employ to measure time will mark the conclusion of my sixtieth year in this here and now. A birthday milestone I could never even imagine thirty years ago. A birthday marker that too many of [...]
25
Jul
Jul
Learning to Pursue Love not the World’s Approval
I live in a culture that deifies what our senses can see while disparaging what our senses cannot see. I live in a culture that devours generosity to satiate our vociferous appetite for self while discounting a sense of shared community. I live in a culture that diminishes kindness [...]
18
Jul
Jul
The Digital Amplification of Mental Illness
We live in a world that even our most foresighted futuristic forefathers could never imagine. Cold water flows into our homes with the turn of a faucet. Hot showers are available on demand. We press buttons on a machine to cool us in the summer and warm us in [...]
11
Jul
Jul
When the Myth Dies: A July 4th Reflection
Fifty years ago, as our nation celebrated its bicentennial, a shy skinny suburban fourth grader summoned the courage to step out from among his classmates. Performing his impersonation of James Cagney as he spun, shook and slid across a soulless gymnasium floor. His classmates in support of his stage [...]
27
Jun
Jun
The Dance of Deception that Deceives Our Hearts
We all want to believe that by and large we’re a good person. Maybe; but probably not as good as we believe. It’s not that humans are bad per se, but it’s more nuanced. Humans, like all of creation, are pronounced good by God. Every person conceived in love [...]
20
Jun
Jun
Loneliness is Lethal and Isolation is Iniquitous
Like every object and each subject within the cosmos our existence is relational. No human was ever created alone. No human ever came into the world alone, and no human was ever meant to live this life alone (even introverted introverts). You are not a rock, nor are you [...]
13
Jun
Jun
The Gift of Love I Scorned and the Sorrow I Reaped
Someone once said that time heals all wounds; maybe. I can only speak from my own experience and my owned grief. What time has allowed me is plot and perspective to ponder what my life has been about. What my life could have been about, and what my life [...]
06
Jun
Jun
Glory to God and the Ghosts of Club Kids
Nostalgia has a powerful pull on the human heart; its deception delightful. Mystically moving our minds eye to a time and terrain that no longer exists and maybe never really existed. A reel of re-imagination that revolves inside our head. A cerebral sleight of hand that heals the heart [...]
30
May
May
Rage Against the Machine: AI Will Be Weaponized to Harm Humanity
The modern world has deconstructed every social institution, disassembled the cosmos and disarmed the world of any meaning. Reducing the human experience to a succession of stimuli to serve a soulless system. Science is sacred, the sacred is scorned and humans are suffering. As a culture and a country, [...]
16
May
May
The Heart of Love and the Soul of Life is Relational
There have been millions of words written and thousands of pictures painted that try to capture the essential essence of the human experience. Often these themes highlight our passions, such as adoration and abhorrence, greed and generosity, and death and deliverance. And yet, every book and painting remains outside [...]
18
Apr
Apr