Out of Sight, Out of Mind
This spark surfaced while I was serving as lector during worship, reading 1 Samuel 16:1–13 aloud.
Wisdom is how you live.
This spark surfaced while I was serving as lector during worship, reading 1 Samuel 16:1–13 aloud.
Before humanity ever spoke of a “Second Coming,” it wrestled with a far older question.
How do we live humanly at scale?
To be Christian is not to claim belief but to remember grace — love without boundaries, forgiveness without limits, kindness without expectations.
Logic builds systems. Trust sustains them.
When logic reaches its limits, it doesn’t collapse — it transforms into trust.
Because the moment you stop needing to understand everything, you start belonging to it.
This past year has been one of letting go, following sparks, facing fear, and listening for whispers. Along the way I’ve remembered faith as my compass — Grace, Presence, and Spark — and begun to see life not as poles in opposition, but as the thread in between that makes us whole. Mid-life, I’ve found, is not a crisis but a crossing.
We’ve optimized for speed and return—but lost our compass. This post invites a return to meaning, and introduces a new posture of leadership: the Chief Steward.
In today’s workplace, professionalism is often mistaken for grace—and leadership for visibility. This piece explores how our growing appetite for applause is confusing duty with virtue, and what that means for the next generation of leaders.
Before a child ever discovers their own spark, they live by the spark of ours. Protecting the spark — both theirs and our own — is the sacred duty of parents, mentors, teachers, coaches, and leaders.
A metafictional reflection on identity, illness, and spark — for overthinkers and seekers who know that some truths only show up when you're not looking.
Everyone’s an editor. But few are witnesses. This is a reflection on writing, reading, and why stillness—not feedback—is the rarest form of resonance.