About My Writing

I want my writing to be up-close, raw, and personal. We’ve all experienced the tension that exists before peace.

I’m not writing to impress or to sound spiritual. I’m not writing to sound wise.

I hope my writing invites you to listen to my thoughts and experiences out loud.

Confusion comes before clarity, just as doubt precedes faith.

Making one’s own wounds a source of healing does not call for a sharing of superficial personal pains but for a constant willingness to see one’s own pain and suffering as rising from the depth of the human condition which all men share.

Henri J. M. Nouwen

I write with honest language. I hope you feel real emotions. I want you to sense my humanness.

Specificity creates intimacy. When we share specific details people feel closer to the story. Readers connect more concretely when we forego the generalities guarding our frailties.

I want you to see my soul, as is, not curated. As a friend of mine likes to say, “I’m just one beggar pointing another beggar to the bread line.”

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Here are a few of #Lent26 posts from a few of my friends.

Will Future Generations read what we Post here today @WordPress?

Lent 2026 #3 Water’s Edge

Second Sunday in Lent

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Until my next post…

Be salty, stay lit.

Rainer Bantau —The Devotional Guy™

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