About TRUTH
We understand everything we experience or perceive from within a storyline our mind has constructed over the course of our life so far.
Rohr on the danger of “Sacrifice”
“Sacrifice” usually leads to a well-hidden sense of entitlement..."
The vast community...
So thankful for the vast community of friends who surround me + my family with love + grace + generosity
Jesus was an undocumented, middle-eastern, refugee...
The central figure of Christianity - Jesus - was an undocumented, middle-eastern, refugee.
A little more guilty
When a we cannot come to terms with our shadow, we forces random individuals to carry the full weight of our collective fear and guilt.
Understanding Others Solutions
We can't understand the solutions other people arrive at until we understand the problems they are trying to solve.
That which we leave behind.
In the last few year, I have learned so much from grief. When so many people and things you love are lost to you…
In this Second…
In this Second...
The people who tell us who we are.
The people we surround ourselves with are one of the primary mirrors in our life. They tell us who we are.
A Prayer of Confession - for Christians
A Prayer of Confession - for Christians
Page 5.
Christ Our Eternal Contemporary - Lesslie Newbigin, Page 5 (formatting mine)
You are a gift.
You are a gift to the rest of us.
A very incomplete list of books I hope you read.
A very incomplete list of books I hope you read.
Mature Rebellion.
Often in life the problem is not that we are rebellious - but that we’re are not nearly rebellious enough.
The Problem with Prophets
Prophets are such a pain in the ass.
Demons vs. Demons
What are the demons you wrestle with that create doubt, fear, destruction, broken relationships, and general havoc and pain in your life?
Wisdom from 1968
“To the Christians I would say, for God’s sake, let us have no arrogance, no trace of the feeling that if you are a Christian this means that you are better than other people, or that you are in some sense God’s favourites..."
Whom *you* crucified.
'They’ killed Jesus because he was an total disappointment to their expectation + a threat to their worldview… and they would have gotten away with it if God had not raised Jesus and named Him ruler + rescuer.
the miracle of understanding
Those moments, when we are able to hear another human’s voice + understand what they are actually communicating, are great miracles
*experiments in becoming*
There are no experts on being human…