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Out of Control
“Love is easy to feel, difficult to hold, and astoundingly painful to hand over to someone else.” I spoke those words to a friend not too long ago, and (not to be prideful) I thought they were quite beautiful so I wrote them down. I’ve spoken at length about love on this blog over the…
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Human After All
I hate flying. Not the flying itself, but the logistics of it: flying means going through airports, waits at security if not at the gate itself, having to take your electronics out or your shoes off, and host of other little inconveniences that just suck the energy out of you. Finally, by the time you’re…
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A Good Enough Venture Into What it Means to be Good
I am not a good person. Or at least, I’m not always sure that I am: what is a good person, after all? In a sense, this question demands that I consider some of the qualities that I feel may be lacking in myself, and it has no easy answer. How can I make any…
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I Wonder (It’s Frightening)
One of my favourite bands, if not my favourite, will forever be Abba. Sue me. I sometimes refer to it as my guilty pleasure, but in all honesty I don’t feel any guilt about it. The themes they explore in some of their songs, although they sound so pleasant to the ear, often touch on…
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A Catholic and a Muslim Walk into a Bar
I’ve never been to a Mosque before. Today was the first time. I didn’t quite know what to expect: Christians and Muslims, after all, have historically not gotten along, and even today, with the religion-fueled violence that regrettably pervades much of the Middle East, one could say there is some tension in the air between…
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Christ the Eternal Tao
When I picked this book up, I was expecting a comparative study of Taoism and Christianity. I expected long (but interesting) chapters that fleshed out whatever similarities and differences exist between the two. Instead, what I found was poetry, wisdom, and the beautiful marriage of two traditions, each of which interpret and express the other.…
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Living in La La Land
I cried at the end of La La Land. Sue me. How could you not in that final scene? But for those of you who haven’t seen it, allow me to explain. La La Land is, of course, a love story. An aspiring actress and a struggling jazz pianist meet by fate, so it seems,…
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“Take Heart”
Earlier this year, I wrote a post entitled “God … calls people to die” about a conversation I had with an old friend, but in the aftermath of my choice, I realised too late that I’d oversimplified the matter. The straightforward interpretation—that God calls us to die, to let go of the things we don’t…
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A Time When There Was No History
In the age when life on earth was full, no one paid any special attention to worthy men, nor did they single out the man of ability. Rulers were simply the highest branches on the tree, and the people were like deer in the woods. They were honest and righteous without realizing that they were…
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