The Weight that Forms
This reflection explores how formation happens through relationship, repetition, embodiment, and systems—and how the weight we carry in one another’s lives becomes part of the world we pass on.
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The Gut’s Instinct
This reflection begins with a simple question about what moves us to act, and follows it inward toward instinct, formation, hunger, dependence, and the possibility that what we call the deepest “I” may have been practicing “we” all along.
Our Daily Bread
This reflection explores how economic uncertainty became an awakening to the meaning of “our daily bread” — not simply as personal provision, but as communal Grace, revealing how Life within us participates in sustaining Life beyond us.
Wonder Under Weight
This reflection explores how wonder can become buried beneath the weight of knowledge, and how presence can help us remember the extraordinary within what has been here all along.
What Came First?
This reflection begins with a question from Matthew 15: Blind to what? Following the Pharisees, a Canaanite woman, and the older truth of Genesis, it wonders what happens when the distinctions that came later become more visible than the image of God that came first.
Who Art Thou?
This reflection began as a struggle to pray. It became a search for the One I had been thanking all along. Through family, friends, strangers, and unexpected acts of kindness, perhaps grace has always been arriving with a human face.
The Basic Instincts
This reflection explores fight, flight, and freeze through the lens of formation—and wonders whether Face offers another possibility: remaining present long enough for what we encounter now to become part of what forms us next.
Charity: Grace Outsourced?
This reflection explores the tension between charity and grace through the parable of the wheat and weeds, asking what happens when generosity travels elsewhere while the harm we participate in remains untouched.
The Grace of “Perhaps”
This reflection explores why one small word keeps appearing in my writing and how perhaps became a practice of humility—creating space between memory and reality,
recognition and understanding, wonder and wisdom.
The Shape of Becoming Human
How a conversation with my mom, Paul's words, and one Tamil word unexpectedly became a reflection on formation, re-formation, and the enduring shape of becoming human.