Writing it down

I started this a hundred times in my heart. And then I didn't.

I've been writing — on and off — for almost thirty years. Journal entries. Sermon notes. And more journal entries. Prayers on scraps of paper before the big meeting.

The cries of my heart on paper.

Reflections scribbled at six in the morning before the day swallowed me whole. Most of it lived in private notebooks and folders nobody ever saw. Some of it I forgot I wrote until I found it again and realized it still mattered.

In January 2012, I wrote this to myself: "I feel that much is being lost in my development because I am not writing things down. It is difficult to piece the entire message together when some valuable or relevant items are forgotten or left out."

I didn't know it then. But I was describing something I'd spend years trying to build — a written witness to what God has been doing in my life, one season at a time.

This is that witness. Finally, somewhere people can find it.

I'm a follower of Jesus.
I preach occasionally. Have ran Sunday School and Children's Ministry Programs.

I'm a husband, a son, a brother. I live in Houston. I was born in Costa Rica. Grew up in Canada.

I think a lot about faith — not faith as a concept, but faith as the daily, invisible, necessary work of trusting that God is who He says He is and will do what He says He'll do.

This site is where I put that thinking.

You'll find four kinds of writing here.

Reflections — honest, sometimes unfinished thoughts on God, life, Scripture, and the distance between what I believe and how I actually live.

A Credo — my attempt to write down what I actually believe. Not a denomination's statement. Not borrowed language. Mine. It grows and changes as I do.

Life Spaces — my attempt to crack the nut of work-life balance from a Christian perspective. I haven't figured it out. But I'm in the struggle with everyone else, and I'm writing it down.

Digital Walk — what it looks like to document a life of faith in the digital age. The tools, the process, and the theology behind why it matters.

Why now.

Because the writing was always supposed to go somewhere.

Because a thought that moves you is worth more when it moves someone else too.

And because I've learned — slowly, reluctantly — that faithfulness in small things is where faith actually lives. Writing this down is one of those small things.

I hope something here is useful to you.

— Jose