Formation, Culture & Embodied Life

You can be doing the right things and still feel inwardly braced. Not because you lack discipline or faith, but because life is being lived from a place of urgency rather than rest. When we live from the wrong centre, truth becomes brittle, time feels scarce, and even devotion turns exhausting. Transformation begins not with more effort, but with discovering the state from which we see.

Inspiration wakes you. Fidelity transforms you. And when the spark fades, it is not the end of the dream. It is the moment you step into its real life.

Play, passion, purpose, and partnering were never meant to be steps or strategies. They name the conditions under which responsibility can be carried without eroding the self. When one is missing, the others begin to distort.

I might step away from the task, but I cannot so easily step away from what has accumulated inside me. When I later interact with my wife, a trivial disagreement becomes the outlet for what I failed to address earlier.

It is little wonder that so many people feel persistently exhausted, anxious, irritable, or numb. Not because they are weak or failing—but because they are attempting to live complex human lives without adequate access to their own interior world.

The ego is not something to be defeated, but something that has been asked to rule for too long. What dies in the Christian life is not the self, but the exhausting burden of self-rule. In its place, life is re-centred in a presence capable of carrying what we never could.