PRAYER
Not always answers. Sometimes the courage to keep listening.
FAITH
GOD. PRAYER. CREATION. GRATITUDE. STRUGGLE. PURPOSE.
NOT A DECORATION. NOT A PERFORMANCE.
Faith is part of how I make sense of gratitude, pain, endurance, silence, beauty, and the fact that I am still here.
Some of it happens in words. Some of it happens in prayer. Some of it happens when I am alone outside long enough for the noise to fall away and the world feels larger than whatever I carried into it.
THE TEMPLE ON THE HILL
At one of the lowest points of my life, a drive with no real destination led me through the gate of a Vietnamese Buddhist monastery in Bonsall.
I went up the hill curious. What followed became years of practice, meditation, compassion, and questions — and eventually part of the road that led me to Christ.
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BELIEF HAS TO SURVIVE REAL LIFE.
GRATITUDE
Paying attention to what remains good even when life is complicated.
CREATION
Mountains, water, sky, weather, and silence can restore proportion.
PURPOSE
Trying to live deliberately instead of moving through life half-awake.
THESE PARTS OF MY LIFE CANNOT BE SEPARATED CLEANLY.
WHEN EVERYTHING BROKE OPENFaith under pressure → WHERE LIFE MAKES THE RULESFaith, judgment, and the mountains →SOME PRAYERS ARE SPOKEN.
SOME ARE WALKED.