“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
FREDERICK BUECHNER
MEMORY RESIDUE
Memory Residue. It’s like déja vu except you know for certain that it happened because it’s etched into the very core of who you are. It’s the remembering, and the trying to forget. It is, however, more than what I can, or can’t, remember. It’s a dive inward: partly scared of what I might find, but mostly just turning the wheels of my heart. It’s chasing after the wind and coming to figure out that the Creator of the wind is the one that I’ve been after all along.
With all that said…it’s a blog.
Memory Residue is my blog.
Home is Calling: Rerooting
Sometimes in our journey home we have to be far enough away from it to return with new eyes. Call it what you will, a repentance of the soul and mind, or fresh, new ways of seeing. In my journey to the Pacific Northwest I pushed myself (with my family) as far as I could to the ocean in the Olympic National Forest. The beauty of the Northwest is captivating. When you’ve grown accustomed to [...]
Home is Calling: Mountain Tops
I’ve recently been listening to a series by the Bible Project in which they highlight that “in ancient Israel’s imagination, the mountain is where the heavenly realm in the skies meets the human realm on land. In this place, people can access God’s wisdom and power and his very presence.” It’s in this place where Heaven and earth meet, and in this narrative, we see how the presence of God comes down to dwell with [...]
Home is Calling
Home again. A common denominator in my spiritual journey over the years has been the idea/identity of being a visitor, and in this metaphorical way of thinking, "home" is Heaven. I've quite literally been a bit of a nomad too, but we see this idea in Scripture woven all throughout its text. Scripture is written to an exilic people, strangers, and foreigners, and "home" is the place of union with God - back to Eden. [...]