by darndestdabbler | Nov 1, 2026 | Spiritual
A while back I wrote about a dream in which God told me to write about the things I know. This is one of those. I know it as a man who sat on his hands in church, and I know it as a man who spent graduate school studying emotion and missed the obvious. There is a...
by darndestdabbler | Aug 9, 2026 | Spiritual
Better Off Worse? My freshman year of college was an interesting time. The year before, I had graduated at the top of my class and had been elected senior class president. Then I arrived at a university that was, let’s just say, challenging for me. There seemed...
by darndestdabbler | Jun 18, 2026 | Spiritual
Over a year ago, I shared that I’d had a dream where God basically told me to write about the things I know. He was gently putting me in my place. I’d been trying to discover great spiritual truths through my writing, and God dismissed all of that with one...
by darndestdabbler | Mar 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I was reviewing the work that Claude — an AI assistant — had done during a programming session, and I noticed something that stopped me cold. I had been using Claude Code to build an issue-tracking application, and somewhere around the sixth session,...
by darndestdabbler | Jan 19, 2026 | Spiritual
I need to start this post with a confession: I’m a registered Republican, I drive a Jeep Gladiator, and I once took my son to a Trump rally. I’m deeply skeptical of anything that expands government or smells like propaganda. So what I’m about to...
by darndestdabbler | Jan 1, 2026 | Spiritual
Have you ever had God show up in a dream and gently suggest that your understanding was incomplete? I have, and it shifted my perspective in ways I’m still processing. But let me back up a bit. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been diving deep into biblical themes...
by darndestdabbler | Nov 9, 2025 | Spiritual
If you are like me, then your life has brought you through at least one significant wilderness – a very challenging situation that lasts for a while and requires some spiritual strength to get through it. That wilderness is a significant challenge and burden but also...
by darndestdabbler | Oct 11, 2025 | Spiritual
Although most people I grew up with might have described me as a pretty good kid, there was a short time when I was headed down the wrong path. Ironically, my wrong path commenced after an event in my childhood where I ended up doing the right thing, and I was...
by darndestdabbler | Sep 27, 2025 | Spiritual
On most days when I walk from the bus stop to work, I pick up trash along the way. I started doing this because after months of ignoring the trash that I walked past each day, I began to feel guilty that I wasn’t doing something about it. So, I started picking...
by darndestdabbler | Aug 28, 2025 | Spiritual
I believe there are natural metaphors all around us — where nature often conveys something deep, rich, and profound about life, spirit, or truth. In a previous post, I shared a natural metaphor related to a woman’s womb (The After-Womb: A Parable), which,...
