From the Heart includes articles that are more spiritual in nature. These entries contain minimal research and more of a personal perspective on my own life.
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From the Heart: Pastoral Icarus Syndrome?
Omnipotent I am the one Icarus I’ll touch the sun Omnipotent Icarus I’ll eat the sun Lorna Shore, “Sun//Eater,” track #3 from Pain Remains, Century Media Records, 2022 I am closer to God than you are. Directly or indirectly, this is the ignorant idea some pastors base their entire theology upon and our culture essentially…
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From the Heart: Happy Birthday, Mom
Just another moment in your eyesI’ll see you in another lifeIn Heaven!Where we never say goodbye!Now that it’s overI just want to hold herI’d give up all the world to seeThat little piece of Heaven lookin’ back at me “Lucy,” track #12 from Skillet, Awake, Atlantic Records, 2009. Suffering does not have the final word…
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A Life Worth Living: Beauty, Rage, and Hope
It has been about a month since I posted here so I wanted to give an update. As I mentioned in my previous post, which was initially sent out as a newsletter, I am in the process of recovering from an extreme crisis. In hindsight, I see that I was in the darkest place I…
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Fleeing the Darkness of Rock Bottom
I sent this out as a newsletter, but after such a loving and wonderful response, I figured I would post it here. My favorite verse in the Bible, John 1:5 says, “The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness has not overcome it.” I am no stranger to the darkness. I do not think…