Who Holds the Holder?
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.
Tag Stewardship
Three Facades. One Face.
Power moves in three ways—receiving, taking, and giving.
But what holds them reveals who we are.
Keep On Keeping On
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.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
This spark surfaced while I was serving as lector during worship, reading 1 Samuel 16:1–13 aloud.
Unclenching the Moment
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.
Learning to Choose Purpose
Formation isn’t arrival.
It’s what you choose when power is available
and purpose costs more.
Christian Is a State of Being
To be Christian is not to claim belief but to remember grace — love without boundaries, forgiveness without limits, kindness without expectations.
The Scenery of Want and Need
A reflection on how inherited protection becomes conditioning — and how presence restores the balance between prosperity and pain, want and need.
Turning a New Leaf
Parenthood has a way of changing how you understand love. The strength I once measured by how high I could stand is now measured by how gently I can stay. My children have taught me what my mother’s faith began — that love doesn’t always reach upward; sometimes it sends roots downward. And in that quiet turning, Christ meets me again — not in the sky, but in the soil, where breath becomes belonging.
Did Jesus Treat Money as a Heavenly Gift?
A children’s lesson on earthly and heavenly treasures sparked a question: Did Jesus ever treat money as a heavenly gift? History and scripture tell another story.