Reflections
Thoughts about living a more beautiful story.
The tale of Bugsy the entomologist
Most of the ants didn’t understand what he was talking about, because there really wasn’t a way to describe what a human was to ants. There was not a vocabulary that encapsulated the essence of humanity into ant-size understanding.. So using the best ant communication methods available, Bugsy worked to tell the ants humans existed, and the amazing creativity and intelligence of humans. But he could not find any way to express the complexity of human emotions, their powers of reasoning, and their creations of music and art and jets and iPhones. Everything Bugsy communicated about humans had to be dumbed down to the very basic levels that he, as an ant using ant communication, could get across to them.
My story of following Jesus toward a more beautiful story since the 1980s, with evolving and expanding views of the love of God in and out of pastoral ministry.
Want to jumpstart your own journey? These books, podcasts, and individuals have guided me toward a more beautiful story and could help you too.