Tag Formation

Sparks

This reflection follows a thought about science and discovery into a deeper remembering of Life as gift, coherence as return, and the spark as something received rather than possessed.

The Human, Being

This reflection considers the human being not as an identity, but as a movement of life received, inherited, and returned.

Kosmos Re-membered

This reflection explores how humans carry what we receive along the trail of time—through systems, communities, protection, openness, and light—and how remembering may ultimately be an act of re-membering.

The First Order

A reflection on being creature within creation, held in communion — metaphysical without abstraction, theological without dogmatism, philosophical without detachment, and personal without being merely subjective.

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.

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.