Out of Sight, Out of Mind
This spark surfaced while I was serving as lector during worship, reading 1 Samuel 16:1–13 aloud.
Wisdom is how you live.
This spark surfaced while I was serving as lector during worship, reading 1 Samuel 16:1–13 aloud.
Awakening often feels like a curse before it becomes wisdom. Ignorance can feel peaceful, knowledge can feel heavy, and only through acceptance do we learn how to live gently with what we see.
Sometimes the mind arrives before the heart.
The sentence forms. The explanation appears.
But the feeling—the truth beneath it—has not yet found its voice.
Crossing prognosis changed how I hold time. What felt like reverence slowly became management.
This is a reflection on survival, belonging, and learning to unclench the mind.
What if the deeper question of faith isn’t what Jesus would do, but who he would be?
A reflection on formation, presence, and becoming human before acting faithfully.
Formation isn’t arrival.
It’s what you choose when power is available
and purpose costs more.
I never really interviewed for jobs. Each one found me through presence. And this morning I realized — Christ has been my longest interviewer.
When the Church forgets she is her—a living body, not a brand—we begin to lose the very tenderness that holds us. This reflection begins with an old hymn and ends as an invitation to feel again what we were made to hold.
Logic builds systems. Trust sustains them.
When logic reaches its limits, it doesn’t collapse — it transforms into trust.
Because the moment you stop needing to understand everything, you start belonging to it.
We live inside architectures we didn’t build — family, faith, culture. Most stay invisible until they crack, and in the cracks longing shows itself.