A quick reminder

I’m convinced that heaven is truly the only real game in town. It’s happening all around us all of the time. Before our little pruney human hearts stop beating and after. Heaven is the eternal party we’ve all been included in since before the dawn of time. We can, however…

Putting this trinity of words back into place — Intimacy is weird… I hate to admit it, but I’m not a very intimate person. Not just with my wife but with everyone in my life. Now, I don’t speak of intimacy in purely romantic terms. …

The whole “Jesus is my savior,” or, “Jesus saves,” thing kinda gives me cringy shivers whenever I hear or read the phrase in our modern culture. The energy or feeling-tone that statement usually carries never hits me in an authentic way. It’s so often frantic and pushy. Egh… I guess…

Looking at any baby, you can see that from the first breath, they are whole and complete as humans. No one expects a thing from a newborn. Their value is innate. It’s a given. And then, life moves along. The newborn grows up. And in that time, the world around…

God seems hidden to us because we define presence in a physical way. And physical presence is limited. …

I believe that humans are an attention-grabbing species. If it wasn’t for the attention-grabbing impulse, there would be no public art. People would write, draw, speak, and dance in their bedrooms and that would be that. If the impulse to grab attention wasn’t there, we’d have no Mona Lisa or…

The human tendency is to deem ourselves worthless and then cook up all kinds of sordid ways to try to earn what we already have. Ugh… Why do our little silly human brains do this? We deem that when we check off whatever boxes our culture, false egoic self, and/or…