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In His Direction

In 2016, I walked into a small, garden-level room with short windows spanning the length of the back wall across from me. The space was empty except for a single church pew under the windows and a worn armless chair. Although sunlight from the small windows filled the room, it still felt like a dark closet in the back corner of a basement, which is precisely where it was situated in this small church in Denver, Colorado. I had never been to this church before. I entered in despair. I felt like my life was hitting rock bottom. There was nothing I could salvage. I couldn’t keep it afloat any longer and the path forward only looked worse. Nothing about being in this room brought me any comfort or hope. In fact, it felt more reflective of the current state of my life; cold, dark, empty, and worn out. I was giving God one last chance to intervene before my life degraded into what I would describe as an old home being swept away in flood waters. Deep in misery, I knelt down next to the pew, ...
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Let God Be

If I know anything about God, it is that I know nothing about Him. And as this journey progresses, the realization that I don’t know anything about Him grows. Like most genuine people, I am often wrapped up in a tangled, spaghetti-noodle pile of thoughts when thinking about God. “If God exists, does He see me right now? Can He hear me? What if He does hear me? Should I be afraid? Why would He bother? He may be the only one who can help, so how do I get His attention? What if He’s the reason why my life is going so poorly? ” And on and on. My imagination explores all possible answers to see if one particular path makes any sense. But, rarely come to any place of tangible help for current circumstances. Just an empty pile of thoughts, imagination, and helplessness. I’ve noticed this is a universally common experience for people who spend time thinking of God. There’s no wondering why most conversations between people about God leave no one feeling more enlightened or grounded. Mix in opi...
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Seeing The End

You and I will both face God at some point in our lives. If not during our lives, then at our death. This is a certainty explained many times in the bible. And it should be this way since we have been born into this world without the choice to be born or not be born; we should know the being responsible for causing our lives to be. Some people have the unique, uncommon experience of meeting God early during their lives here on Earth. Most people don’t meet Him until they die after about 70 or more years of life. For you and I, whether it be 1 or 50 years from today, we will certainly meet Him. But, I don’t want to wait until I die. Neither should you. I want to meet Jesus face-to-face as soon as possible. If there is anything worth pursuing, anything worth my time, effort, strength, or life, it is to see and know the person responsible for my existence and I am certain that this effort has eternal value. That is why it is written that the essence of eternal life is knowing Jesus Christ...
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The Beginning

I am a fool. I have accepted that I am. Sometimes I think that I might not be as much of a fool as someone else, but then I think about our foolishness compared to the infinite wisdom of God. On His scale of wisdom and foolishness, because God’s scale is so large since His wisdom is unending, there would be an indistinguishable difference between my foolishness and any other person’s on that scale. In my foolish journey through this life, I am at the very beginning of wisdom. I know that wisdom exists because foolishness most certainly exists, therefore, wisdom must exist. I recognize a trait of this universe we live in, which is that almost everything here has an opposite. Wisdom has foolishness. Wet has dry. Light has dark. Good has evil. Opposites are designed into the nature of this universe. It’s an interesting trait of this universe because it means that searching one side of an opposite pair helps you understand the other. It means that you don’t have to explore evil to understa...
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