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.
Coherence is the original state. Everything else is drift.
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.
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.
This reflection explores the hidden emotional cost of stewardship, the drift from care into self-protection, and the human need for replenishment beneath every role of power.
Power moves in three ways—receiving, taking, and giving.
But what holds them reveals who we are.
A reflection on how life unfolds through form—dot, circle, line, triangle, square—and how awareness introduces separation, scale introduces burden, and return restores our capacity to hold.
Not a path forward, but a pattern we live through—again and again.
This spark surfaced while I was serving as lector during worship, reading 1 Samuel 16:1–13 aloud.
Sometimes the mind arrives before the heart.
The sentence forms. The explanation appears.
But the feeling—the truth beneath it—has not yet found its voice.
Formation isn’t arrival.
It’s what you choose when power is available
and purpose costs more.
To be Christian is not to claim belief but to remember grace — love without boundaries, forgiveness without limits, kindness without expectations.
A reflection on how inherited protection becomes conditioning — and how presence restores the balance between prosperity and pain, want and need.