“Suffer the little children to come to me” …because we are all frail children in the face of the immense Love that gave birth to the world.

Life is made of miracles and wonders, but you never paid enough attention to recognize them

Happiness isn’t having life give us what we want. Life will hurt us in thousand ways, large and small. Happiness is knowing how to survive the storm and walk out with a smile on our face…

I was just thinking how nice Twitter was back in the day …before corporations, political parties, and a billionaire all decided to manipulate it for their own ends. It felt like a public square back then. The place you went to discuss and meet anybody in the digital world, the place where you found your particular tribe of misfits. I made so many friends on that app back then! It felt like it was ours and we could never lose it. Now it’s an emotionally vacuous space full of cynical con men, shrill politics, and viral stupidity. No one really lives there anymore. They just go to gape at the ghastly spectacle. NOSTR really feels different. It isn’t a public square yet, but it really can become one, because this time it doesn’t just feel like ours. It is ours.

Communicating the incommunicable

Anyone claiming to pronounce a “Christian response” to violence and tragedy that is not grounded in our Savior’s command to “love your enemies” needs to spend less time pontificating on social media and more time meditating on Jesus, who loved us even though we were his enemies…

"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again." -Alan Paton

“Nothing is inexorable but love.” -George MacDonald

After so much hard labor will we every find true rest? After such a long loneliness will the embrace of love be there to welcome us?

I have read too much history to fully trust any human endeavor

Every once in a while I think Nostr is dying, but then I come here and realize it isn’t dead at all. It’s just growing quietly and beautiful…

The only thing you never lose is what you give away

I saw an old picture of you today. You looked so young and full of hope… It made me sad.

We never end up in the place we hoped for in the beginning

“Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.” -Gregory of Nyssa

Confession: This whole “self care” trend strikes me as absurdly sad and lonely. I don’t live well for just myself. More than half a day focused just on me and my needs and I am irritable and moody. I’m not sure if this makes me a reactionary traditionalist or a raging socialist, but I cannot believe there is any flourishing to be found in lives which do not serve each other.

It’s good that they are killing the Twitter name and calling it “X” now. It will let us fondly remember our Twitter experience, without having to associate our positive experiences with whatever invasive, panopticon nonsense Elon is building.

Someday it all goes away

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” -Thomas Merton

Playfulness is the most underrated of all human behaviors Art is playfulness. Love is playfulness. Intelligence is playfulness.