Hi, Tim here.

I serve as Director of Programs at Laity Lodge, an ecumenical retreat center in the Texas Hill Country.

And I’m a Doctor of Ministry candidate in “The Sacred Art of Writing” through the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary.

Previous work experience includes World Vision, Hoiland Media, and 1MISSION. I earned an M.A. from Eastern University (2009) and a B.S. from Millersville University (2005).

I enjoy reading books. And essaying.

A dual citizen of Guatemala and the United States, I live in Boerne, Texas, with Katie. We enjoy long walks at The Cibolo with our Boston Terrier, Gus.

Say hello, why dontcha?

Over at Mockingbird, I wrote about my friend Augustine and what I’m learning from him about paying attention to my life—for the life of the world.

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  • Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

    Frederick Buechner

  • We are disastrously erring and rebellious, and irreducibly sacred. And God is mindful of us.

    Marilynne Robinson

  • La esperanza nos acompaña / Con ella nada nos puede detener / Yo de tu mano, tú de la mía / No hay nada que temer.

    Gaby Moreno

  • Faith has a lot to do with the simple fact that there are trustworthy lives to be seen.

    Rowan Williams

  • Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

    Marilyn McEntyre

  • You don't give people dignity, you affirm it.

    John M. Perkins

  • The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

    Eugene H. Peterson

  • Hay muchas cosas que sólo pueden ser vistas a través de los ojos que han llorado.

    Óscar Romero

  • God hears the cry of the oppressed before calling for our involvement. God makes the first move.

    Jayakumar Christian

  • Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

    Christian Wiman

  • You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

    Augustine

  • God does not take away our past; God gives it back to us—fragments gathered, stories reconfigured, selves truly redeemed, people forever reconciled.

    Miroslav Volf

  • There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in.

    Leonard Cohen

  • Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?

    Claire Keegan

  • Every lament is a love-song.

    Nicholas Wolterstorff

  • It's love that keeps the world alive / Beyond hate's genius to contrive.

    Wendell Berry