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You speak about healing. You speak about love. But if we are honest, any serious conversation about loving our neighbor must include a conversation about anger. Loving your neighbor requires learning how to feel anger without allowing it to become harm. For much of my life, I carried anger. I wore it like armor. Looking... Continue Reading →
How to Love Yourself in Order to Love Thy Neighbor We all want to love well. We want to love God with sincerity.We want to love our neighbor with integrity.We want to be patient, kind, forgiving, steady. Yet many of us struggle to do consistently for others what we have never learned to do for... Continue Reading →
Becoming Resistant Ultimately, we want to be bulletproof. We want strength. Resilience. Confidence. Certainty. We want to walk through life untouched by its chaos. But the truth is, there is no such thing as bulletproof. What we can build is resistance. Strength does not appear on its own. It is trained. It is practiced daily.... Continue Reading →
Love God. Love Others. Forgive. If I had to boil down the teachings of Jesus into three essential truths, it would be this. Love God. Love your neighbor. Forgive. Everything else seems to flow from those three. This book on self love is not separate from those commands. It is rooted in them. My premise... Continue Reading →
Father,I come to You with a tension I have never quite resolved.You tell me to ask and I will receive.You tell me to pray for the sick.You tell me to knock and the door will be opened.Yet You also speak of Your will.And I do not always know how those two truths live together.Lord, when... Continue Reading →
Metacognition is thinking about thinking.It sounds simple, almost academic. But it may be the most practical skill I have ever developed. Over time I have come to realize that if you want to change your life, your outcomes, or achieve something you have never had, there is one thing that must change first. Your thinking.... Continue Reading →
There are two ways we usually sort experience: logical and emotional. But those categories miss a third way of knowing, a spiritual intelligence that feels like intuition or a truth that simply does not fit our usual calculations. I call this the alternator of the heart. Unlike a battery that depletes the more you use... Continue Reading →
Boundaries, Solitude, Self LoveThese are not three separate practices. They are one movement inward, a single conversation with yourself that says: I will protect the life I am building.Boundaries: the guardrails of the soulBoundaries tell the world, “This is where I end and you begin.” They are not walls erected from anger. They are doors... Continue Reading →
I trust the unfolding,even when I cannot trust the outcome. My faith is not anchored to the picture in my head,but to the hands that hold the canvas. I release my version of how it should be,and lean into the wisdom that sees beyond me. My faith is not in my plan.It is in God’s.
In the Stillness with God It was late.The kind of late where the world exhales and leaves a man alone with himself. He sat with the Scriptures open on his lap, but his eyes were not reading. They were searching inward. “Lord,” he whispered, “is it faithless to question You?” The silence did not feel... Continue Reading →
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What the Twelve Steps Really Look Like in Real Life by Paulie There are many books written about sobriety. Far fewer focus on what happens after the alcohol and drugs are removed. Emotional Sobriety in Action is one of those rare books that addresses the deeper work required if recovery is going to last. As... Continue Reading →
I am not so sure that anything involving thought, consciousness, or God can truly be called a fact. Many people would strongly disagree with that statement, and I understand why. But to me, anything in that realm feels like opinion. That includes everything I write and everything I speak about. There are simply too many... Continue Reading →
Fatherhood A young mother recently posted a video about something she called “mom rage.” She described the moment she spanked her daughter harder than she meant to and the wave of guilt that followed. I’m not a mother, but I understood exactly what she meant. When I was young and had my first child, I... Continue Reading →
We often use grace, mercy, and forgiveness as if they mean the same thing. That makes sense. They overlap in spirit and often appear together in our best moments. Yet each carries a distinct nuance, a different posture of the heart. Before we can offer any of these to others, we must learn to extend... Continue Reading →
Many of us grow up choosing a side. A team. A creed, religion, nationality, or identity that becomes a box separating “us” from “them.” Sometimes we inherit it from family or culture. Sometimes we adopt it to belong. Either way, once inside that box, we often dismiss anything said by those outside it. This is... Continue Reading →
Vanity vs Self Love The caricature trend online is amusing and creative, yet I cannot help but wonder if, for some, it serves as another veil. A way to soften or hide what life has etched onto our faces. The scars. The wrinkles. The uneven tones. The silver strands. These are not flaws. They are... Continue Reading →
Surrender I often wrestle with the tension between surrendering to the divine within us and taking control through the ego, what some call the flesh. There are times when I tell myself I am surrendering, yet deep down I sense it is my ego pretending to let go while still holding the reins. Prayer, I... Continue Reading →
I bleed red, white, and blue,but my blood carries the salt of the island too.Puerto Rican by rhythm,American by road,two flags stitched togetherin the story I’ve lived and the miles I’ve known. When I was younga small flag swung from my rearview mirror,dancing with every turn.Now another flies from my porch,rides the back of my... Continue Reading →
I am proud to say that I bleed red, white, and blue.I am just as proud to be Puerto Rican as I am to be American. When I was younger, I hung a Puerto Rican flag from my rearview mirror. For the last decade, the American flag has flown from my front porch window, and... Continue Reading →
Mastering the Inner Dialogue At some point most of us become aware that we have an inner dialogue. It almost feels obvious. We think in language. If we think in language, then we are constantly responding to ourselves in language. Thought becomes conversation. Some people claim they do not have an inner voice. I understand... Continue Reading →
Autopilot is useful, necessary even. But it can also be terrifying. Have you ever reached your highway exit only to realize you don’t remember driving the last ten miles? You were functioning, responding, even making decisions, yet you were not fully present. That moment can be unsettling. It reveals something uncomfortable: you were awake, but... Continue Reading →
Discipline as a devotion. That is a lot to think about. Many people say they start with discipline and that, over time, it becomes devotion. I think everything depends on context. I could point to one thing and say that is exactly how it happened. Maybe it was. For example, I began with the discipline... Continue Reading →
Self Love In Matthew 22:36–40, Jesus is asked which commandment is the greatest. His answer is direct and uncompromising: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” He then adds that the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Out of the 613... Continue Reading →
Self-Responsibility: Reclaiming the Authorship of Your Life Connecting the dots while looking backward, I can clearly see the dramatic difference between the seasons of my life when I made excuses and avoided ownership—and the moment I fully embraced self-responsibility. When I blamed circumstances, people, or fate, I was not in the pilot seat of my... Continue Reading →
In his book An Atom’s Journey, author Jimmy Perez uses a philosophical parable to explore the profound meaning of the human experience. The narrative follows Atom, a fundamental unit of energy who takes a seventy-five-year "vacation" on Earth as a human named Adam, guided by a dialogue with a higher consciousness or God. Through Adam’s... Continue Reading →
The Posture of the Seeker I have tried, as intentionally as I know how, to enter every situation with a particular posture—one I often visualize as an infinity symbol. One side of that symbol represents adding value; the other represents learning. Wherever I go, with whomever I encounter, I ask myself two questions: How can... Continue Reading →
https://a.co/d/iP3EF1U “I am not the body I drive.I am not the story I repeat.I am not the fear that tightens my chest when I forget.I am the space where forgetting happens.” “Belief borrows, but knowing remembers.” There was never a fall—only a dream of separation.Never a war—only misunderstanding.” “Belief is powerful, but it is also... Continue Reading →
I thought I was dividedlight on one shoulder,shadow on the other,a war between heaven and bone. I learned the names early:right and wrong,good and evil,should and shouldn’tand I lived inside the echo of them. But somewhere between breath and silencea quieter truth remained,unchanging,unimpressed by my fear,untouched by my stories. One voice chased.The other waited. One... Continue Reading →
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