Six ingredients of true repentance:
1. Sight of sin
2. Sorrow for sin
3. Confession of sin
4. Shame for sin
5. Hatred of sin
6. Turning from sin
— Thomas Watson (1620–1686)
Once you know you’re loved without condition, you stop dancing to the music of other people’s expectations. Their verdicts no longer stick. Their scales no longer matter. Their cages no longer hold.
These days, I pretty much only trust people who know their way around the dark.
Not the ones who just talk about it or spot it in others—but the ones who still carry the smell of the cave on their clothes. The ones who’ve sat in their own mess long enough to stop pretending it’s not there. The ones who’ve failed so deeply that grace isn’t just a doctrine anymore—it’s oxygen.
I trust the losers, not the winners.
Because you can’t offer light to others in the dark if you’ve never stumbled around in it yourself. You can’t give away what you don’t have.
When people tell me about their successes, I might feel briefly inspired. But when they tell me about their struggles, I feel less alone.
The best healers are the ones who’ve bled.
So, to those who sat with me in the dust and ashes, to the ones who didn’t try to fix me but simply refused to leave, to those who showed me their scars while I was still bleeding, who whispered hope when I couldn’t find my own voice, who stayed when it cost them something… thank you. You loved me at my worst. You saw me when all I could see was failure. You carried light into my cave and called it grace. I wouldn’t be here without you. I love you—deeply, desperately, forever. #grace #gratitude #friendship #recovery #woundedhealers
Let’s stop pretending Jesus was a culture warrior. He wasn’t campaigning to “take the nation back for God.” He wasn’t building a voting bloc or establishing a “moral majority.”
If He wanted political power, He would’ve run for office. Instead, He let Rome kill Him.
The mission of Jesus was never about controlling culture—it was about conquering death.
He didn’t come to manage sin through legislation. He came to crush it through crucifixion.
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father….for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Mt 5:44-45
Jesus taught that a lack of concern for the poor is not a minor lapse, but reveals that something is seriously wrong with one’s spiritual compass, the heart.
The contemplative tradition in Christianity is not a luxury—it is a necessity for the kind of moment we are living in.
To be still before the Lord is to place ourselves in the posture of receptivity.
And in stillness, we learn to live beyond reactivity.
Something isn’t right about a team from Florida winning the Stanley Cup over a Canadian team from Edmonton. Heartbroken for McDavid #McDavidthegreatest