Tag Grace

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.

As Above — So Below?

This reflection explores the distance between the grace we proclaim above and the economics of survival below, asking what vocation, money, and provision reveal about the world we have built.

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.

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.

Coherence Is Hard

This reflection begins with preparing to serve as lector and unfolds into a meditation on Romans 7, why coherence is so difficult, and how God's grace through Jesus Christ restores our participation in the life we were created for.

Life Arrives First

This reflection explores how humans carry experiences larger than language. Through stories, traditions, memories, and meaning-making, we attempt to preserve life's interruptions long enough for them to reach another person.