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.
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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.
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.
Marriage: The Reconciliation of Realities
A reflection on culture, formation, coherence, and why the work of becoming one matters long before children inherit the world we create.
Dandelion: Weed or Seed?
Most metaphors for formation are grand. This reflection explores why a simple dandelion may be one of nature's clearest teachers of transformation, responsibility, and release.
The Audience Arrives Early
This reflection explores the hidden curriculum of the platform age and asks a deeper question: not what children are creating, but what is creating the children.
Heading After Grounding
This reflection explores orientation, wisdom, capability, capacity, and why grounding often matters more than direction.
Bonsai Banyans
This reflection explores how modern systems reward performed coherence, emotional manageability, and self-regulated performance — and what happens when adaptation slowly replaces becoming.
Sacrificial Collateral
This reflection explores Memorial Day, invisible sacrifice, and the human lives beneath civilization itself.
God: The Horizon?
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.