As a pastor and counselor for over 25 years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the spiritual struggle many encounter as they seek to reconcile the concept of faith with the reality of their daily lives. This struggle has prompted me to write “Resting Faith: An Anchor to the Immovable,” a book that aspires to guide souls towards…
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When I Write About Life
Moving toward a more full-time role in writing has given me the opportunity to learn how successful both writing in community and from conversation can truly be. For four weeks I’ve been writing among creative peers, learning to develop better disciplines and skills for publishing. In that time I’ve learned more about myself and how…
My Writing Demise | Looking at the Mystical Part of Expression
I write about living well. Well, I write about living. Life often isn’t well. Life is often not worth living well. No matter how I parse this, the truth is that I am unable to find consistency in self-expression without some internal/external power pulling or pushing me against the tides of my own chaos. Reflection…
Writing for Writing’s Sake
I’ve been writing a long time. 98% of what I have written is not published, including several partial books, dozens of research papers, and tons more napkins, to-self-texts for later, songs, poems, and rants. This doesn’t include emails, messages, or any other social platforms. Many times we write articles and papers because it’s what we…
Seeing in Spite of Seeing
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreThe forest for the trees type thingy… ok. I am particular about being specific. I am also verbose. Writing helps to manage and mature both issues. I have often prided myself on being myopic in certain disciplines, even dogmatic about important…
A Lesson on Context
What am I talking about? That’s the point of context. Understanding things requires context. As a professional researcher, teacher, creator, and investor of people, I have spent a lot of time learning to read and digest information. When conveying meaning to other people it requires helping them understand the context. Context is simply understood as…
Why I Don’t Write Anymore
Well, if one had to know, I really have never written, just played around with some semi-quasi-halfway syntax and called it writing. The breath of my pen has exhaled with not even a vapor of expression remaining and at the end of this sentence I could stop and hit delete. Seriously, well… more like honestly,…