The Years I Tried to Remain Human
Modern systems measure intelligence, productivity, and adaptability. But what measures the degree to which a person remains human through pressure, performance, and change?
Coherence is the original state. Everything else is drift.
Modern systems measure intelligence, productivity, and adaptability. But what measures the degree to which a person remains human through pressure, performance, and change?
This reflection explores dominion, communion, stewardship, and the tension between control and relationship — from the garden in Genesis to the living presence embodied through Christ.
This reflection explores perception, fear, visibility, witness, and the growing fragmentation of modern life through the metaphor of double vision.
This reflection explores Memorial Day, invisible sacrifice, and the human lives beneath civilization itself.
This reflection explores whether humanity’s understanding of God emerged at the edge of human insufficiency—and whether God is less a conclusion we possess than a horizon we keep moving toward together.
Once, people were welcomed into life. Now many are merely greeted by it.
Breath. Gait. Sight. Balance.
The unattended parts of life became the places I learned to listen.
This reflection explores the tension between spirit and system, spark and cover. Through history, illness, corporate life, oral transmission, and seminary formation.
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 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.