What’s coming down the pipe:

What I have, I give to you

First Things:

The content coming your way—through the app and the emails I’ll send to keep things focused and organized—will range from special texts from the Bible, my personal notes, patristic commentary, linguistic insights, art, prayers, and journal entries. It will all be real, from my real life, and honestly, I will share with you everything that has been most useful to me.

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Second Things:

Many of you may know that I have, at this point, thousands of entries across 11 journals, published a book, completed my Philiokalia (personal testimony), and I am now on the road to completing The Confessions of a Christian Salesman: A Philosophy for Life.

I plan on sharing the best that I have, over time, with everyone that I can.

For good reason, I feel that the only way I can begin to write the second half of my book, A Philosophy for Life, is by re-reading the entire Bible—and perhaps 1-2 other books from Augustine as well. I need to read, finally away from the academic lens (valuable as it is and has been), and learn again just to worship Him on every page, our God, my friends. I need to remember how to just worship and let Him be as He is. These are mysteries. I am learning how to do this, and I want to share as I go.

How can I write “a philosophy”—which means “a love of wisdom,” and in my context, “a love of wisdom and life”—if I do not know He who is Holy Wisdom Himself?

To write a philosophy without being in the love and knowledge of the One who alone grants both life and wisdom would be a terrible mistake.

So, I need to read, but read in a different way that I have discovered over time.

If you know me well, you know that I don’t actually read—well, not in the traditional sense. I practice a type of reading which starts with your basic “reading,” sure. But then I take out all the best things I have found in those books and reduce them down into lines that carry special meaning for me. I collect all of these, and then from them I write master essays or master syntheses, and at the end of those processes = a complete work.

A Philosophy for Life, I believe, cannot be written until I have gone through His Word again—but now as if for the first time—and gathered everything I find in there and synthesized it in a confession to our God, searching to “love Him well” through every page read and every page written, and indeed, over time, through a life lived while reading, while writing.

My journaling method is typically where the “mundane” meets “divine things.” You know I have a business selling insurance, finance, and other things. We all have jobs. What I found I needed to do in my life is never separate my work from His presence, if that makes sense. I couldn’t survive doing life any other way, and this I learned, indeed, the hard way—those who know me know.

So, the content coming your way—through the app and the emails I’ll send to keep things focused and organized—will range from special texts from the Bible, my personal notes, patristic commentary, linguistic insights, art, prayers, and journal entries. It will all be real, from my real life, and honestly, I will share with you everything that has been most useful to me.

Before Christ our God, I want the very best life in Jesus for you, and all my efforts are directed to that end.

This is going to be my sign-off, probably, going forward, by the way:

As always, I want the very best life for you.
The very best life in Christ.

This is my prayer,
And these,
These are my confessions.