Reaching Toward the Unreachable The idea for Higher Than My Thoughts began at Mass on Sunday, September 20, 2026. I had heard the passage from Isaiah many times before, but that morning a few familiar words caught my imagination: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts. There is extraordinary poetry in those words. I

How Big Is His Kingdom? Every year, at the end of the Catholic liturgical year, we celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. I had heard that title countless times: “King of the Universe.” But one year I found myself stopping on those last three words: “...of the Universe.” What exactly are we saying? The question becomes especially interesting when we consider when the feast was established. Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King i

The journey we are all on This song began, unexpectedly, at an outdoor Jefferson Starship concert at our county fair late this summer. They didn’t play it that evening, but seeing the band reminded me of an old favorite of mine, Have You Seen the Stars Tonite? I hadn’t listened to the song in many years, so when I got home I pulled it up and greatly enjoyed listening to it once again. There are very few words in the song, yet it creates an ethereal vision that has stayed

The writing of The Final Danger began by considering how rare we may be. Of all the species that have lived on Earth, human beings appear to be the only ones that have learned to reach far beyond their natural senses and explore the universe. Other creatures perceive things we cannot. Some see wavelengths of light invisible to us. Some hear frequencies beyond our range, sense magnetic fields, navigate across oceans, communicate in ways we are only beginning to understand

It began simply enough. I was listening to my song Space Bends, and one of its central ideas caught my attention again: space is not the empty, rigid stage we once imagined it to be. Space bends. Of course, even saying “space bends” is incomplete. One of the great discoveries of modern physics is that space and time are not really separate things. They are dimensions of a single reality: spacetime. Move through space and you are also moving through time. Change your rela