The Author’s Perspective: When the Mirror Stops Reflecting the Familiar

Looking at unexpected snapshots of myself, I did not recognize the person looking back. After years of caregiving, loss, and feeling like an orphan on earth, the face in the photos simultaneously said “this is who you are now” and “who are you now?” This is the quiet, tear filled space of delayed grief and spiritual becoming, where the outer form no longer matches the inner knowing, yet I remain a child of God, fully known even when I do not yet fully know myself.

Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — What Healthy Love Actually Is

Most of the confusion around boundaries, self-awareness, and “too much” love does not start with those topics themselves. It starts with the fact that many people no longer have a clear understanding of what love actually is – psychologically, philosophically, or biblically.

Verse & Vision | June 12, 2026

We have made 1 Corinthians 13 into a wedding reading. Paul wrote it to people in a church fight. Not people in love — people in conflict, jockeying for status, eating communion bread while others went hungry. Every descriptor in verse 4 is a behavior, not a feeling. Patient. Kind. Not envious. Not boastful. Not proud. Five choices. None of them romantic. All of them available to you today, in the next conversation you have, with the next person who tests you. This is what love looks like when Christ is the source of it.

The Wrong Tragedy | A Newsletter Editorial

Ruby and Laura died in their 80s on a mission trip. The article called it a tragedy. It wasn’t. I’ll tell you what a tragedy actually looks like.