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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.