Tag Identity

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 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.

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.

Same Sheep, Less Wool

This reflection begins with a shave nearly ten years in the making and follows what fell away into questions of survival, remembering, vocation, and coherence.

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 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.