The Light and the Lamp
An intimate remembering about formation, communion, grace, and the human journey of learning how to carry light through time without forgetting where the flame came from.
Spirit and System
This reflection explores the tension between spirit and system, spark and cover. Through history, illness, corporate life, oral transmission, and seminary formation.
A Very Thin Line
There is a line between what keeps a person alive…and what slowly keeps them from fully living.
The Long Way Back
We begin open, learn to survive through what we inherit, and are slowly brought back to something we never truly lost. This is the long way back—to a center that doesn’t need to be filled, only held.
Something Felt Familiar
At first, it felt like different communities with different problems.
But the longer I sat with it, the more it started to feel like something I had seen before.
You Don’t Get a Second Life
You don’t get a second life—you get the same life, seen clearly.
The tension isn’t between past and future, but between awareness and action.
Care or Cover?
Care begins as caretaking. But it becomes caregiving when we follow the spark. A reflection on how empathy can either protect comfort—or make truth possible.
What Remains
A contemplative reflection on what remains of us as decline, dementia, and disappearance loosen the structures of memory and identity—and how formation shapes what endures.
Sound Before Echo
For most of my life, I tried to find myself in stories. Then something shifted. I stopped looking for my life in them—and started seeing them in me.
Three Facades. One Face.
Power moves in three ways—receiving, taking, and giving.
But what holds them reveals who we are.