Reflections

Thoughts about living a more beautiful story.

The tale of Bugsy the entomologist
Don Jaques Don Jaques

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. 

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They'll know we are Christians by our what?
Don Jaques Don Jaques

They'll know we are Christians by our what?

I meet regularly with a friend named Scott who has been exploring the same path I've been traversing. We are both deeply committed to following Jesus Christ. And we're both coming to grips with the fact that we no longer believe the same way we did earlier in our lives.

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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.

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