Self-Sacrifice

6/18/19

Category: Devotionals, JESUS, Spiritual Formation, Suffering

If we are to be like Christ, we must know something of self-sacrifice. To think that God will not refine us through the fires of pain and suffering, and melt away our imperfections like the dross of silver is to relegate the tao of Christianity.

Let us embrace sufferings that serve to embrace our longing to be held tightly to His bosom. He wishes us to suckle from the very breast that was pierced for our transgressions. He wishes us to walk in stride to His heartbeat as a metronome to our habitual self-sacrifice.                

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God and the Timeless Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

3/24/24

Category: Beauty, Morality, Philosophy, Spiritual Formation, Theology

The withering of the imagination to the point of poetic impotency at the hands of reason (logos) clad knowledge-seekers during the epoch of the Enlightenment left a void in its philosophical wake. But as we know from experience, human nature has a way of redressing itself by swinging the proverbial pendulum back toward what it…

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The Painting

3/8/24

Category: Friendship, Literature, Politics, Prayers, Psychology, Short Stories, Spiritual Formation, Suffering

Nathanael grabs the spear. He shuts his left eye to place his prey in his cross-hairs, then releases the javelin with Odyssean accuracy. But the creature parries. The spear gets stuck in the heart of a warrior in a painting that the king had commissioned 15 years prior.

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On Polycarp’s Finger

2/20/24

Category: Psychology, Short Stories, Suffering

A woman coughs up blood in the ICU at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where her husband stands next to her bed, rubbing her back, helping her expel pink phlegm into his handkerchief. At a table for two, at nearby diner, a deep voice punctuates the greasy air that smells of Saturday Night’s Special:…

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