Following Jesus in rejecting empire
“Oh what savory satisfaction. What splendid joy. In one instant, all my anger dissipated and all the rot in my soul has been removed!” That’s how I imagined it. What freedom would taste like once the earth was rid of Frederick Johnson, and I had exacted revenge. Once I had exchanged my passive fist with…
“You asked me if there would be dinosaurs in heaven.” I told Larissa. “I did?” She laughed? “I don’t remember that.” “You did.” I said. Larissa and I were working together on a stretch of road with about 50 others. We were tamping down gravel that had been unloaded from a large wagon and was…
There are relatively few things I remember about my 43 years of life, but one day in particular stands out to me with raw clarity. It was the day I died. It is a rare thing to die at church, though there were some long-winded sermons where I wondered if I might. I remember the…
[The following blog series will be comprised of some original short stories] October 17, 2021 My déjà vu is back in living color. I’m constantly aware of multiple times that I’ve experienced these moments, even this one. I’ve been able to parse up to 4 layers of déjà vu in a single moment. After that,…
[The following blog series will be comprised of original short stories] July 28, 2021 My déjà vu events happen pretty much every day now. Or maybe I should say that I’ve trained myself to become present to these moments which may well be normal occurrences that go unnoticed. This notion has prompted some of my…