Seeing True

06/08/2026

Breakdown? Breakthrough?

While challenges alone do not guarantee growth, breakthroughs in our lives rarely happen without disruptions. Breakdown can expose old patterns, beliefs, and defenses that keep us stuck, creating the opportunity for something new to emerge.

"Radical Grace" points out that both the struggle and the transformation are part of the whole of life and living, and that neither should be overlooked. Rather than viewing breakdown as something to avoid, it can be understood as part of the process that makes breakthrough possible.

How might a current challenge look different if it were viewed not simply as a setback, but as an invitation into a deeper experience of growth, development and transformation?

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Grace is often misunderstood. It is not limited to pleasant moments or favorable outcomes. Rather, it is the mysterious presence woven through all of creation - through every aspect of life and living - including what we are quick to label as dark, wrong, or even evil

06/01/2026

Spirituality is like echolocation. We cannot know the source of our calling, or even the nature or character of the calling. Yet we can follow the feeling of it. The question for each of us is whether to trust and follow the calling.

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“Ignore the callings of your soul at your peril.” It struck with such a resounding chord that I was catapulted into a deep reverie. While I’d love to provide some clear formula/approach/technique, my experience suggests there is no such cookie-cutter to be found where the Soul’s work unfolds...

05/26/2026

Contemplations on Grace: Part 5
Evolution in Creativity - The Writing of Grace Resurrected

Contemplations on Grace is a brief, behind-the-scenes video series offering a glimpse into the writing and reflection process behind the Saga of Grace. In these short contemplations, Ron shares honest thoughts, questions, and insights as the work unfolds - unpolished, unfiltered, and grounded in Grace. It’s an invitation to slow down, reflect, and witness how truth and transformation take shape in real time.

05/18/2026

Self-Improvement?

There’s a strange irony in how hard we work to improve ourselves, only to deepen our all too human fatigue. Striving becomes its own burden. Yet in moments of exhaustion, when the effort finally gives way, something softer can enter. Call this Grace, not as success, but as self-propulsion falling short.

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Grace is often misunderstood. It is not limited to pleasant moments or favorable outcomes. Rather, it is the mysterious presence woven through all of creation - through every aspect of life and living - including what we are quick to label as dark, wrong, or even evil

05/13/2026

Escalante Grand Staircase National Monument is beyond comprehension! What a wonderful world!

05/10/2026

Easy going urban trek this morning, Dimple Dell Trail for some rejuvenation.

05/10/2026

Can We Love Deeply Enough to Let Go?

Motherhood, as reflected here, is about participation in something far greater than ourselves. It gently challenges the instinct to hold tightly, inviting us instead into the sacred work of releasing, trusting, and allowing. In the end, the truest expression of motherhood may be found not in shaping outcomes, but in bearing witness with love, humility, and awe.

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05/04/2026

Am I Seeing Clearly?

The subtle yet powerful difference between what is truly happening and what we think is happening is often filled with misperception. It’s a gentle challenge to pause and question our perceptions, especially in moments of emotional intensity, and to consider whether we are reacting to truth or to something “fancied.”

"An incomplete understanding of a situation will always lead to an incomplete action."

~ Master Samwise

While there may be an objective reality, all we can see is our interpretation of reality. When we can remember we may be misinterpreting, the world and its people no longer present the problems we imagined.

04/27/2026

Contemplations on Grace: Episode #4 - The Creative Process Unfolding

What can we learn from two great truths? Darwin proposed adaptation as the secret to survival and social science concludes cooperation as the magic for thriving. How does this reflect on our creativity?

Contemplations on Grace is a brief, behind-the-scenes video series offering a glimpse into the writing and reflection process behind the Saga of Grace series, and the upcoming fourth novel, Grace Resurrected. In these short contemplations, Ron shares honest thoughts, questions, and insights as the work unfolds - unpolished, unfiltered, and grounded in the Grace he continues to explore, and which continues to illuminate his thinking.

04/20/2026

Summer Reading Tour - Free for Your Reading Enjoyment - Beginning May 1, 2026

Through the summer, every other week we'll randomly select two (2) winners to receive a free book promo code. In return, we simply ask that you share a short review of your experience on social media and allow us to highlight a quote from your reflection.

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