The Fool's Ledger For a long stretch of my life, the last thing I did most nights was run the day back and keep the score myself: what I did right, and who came up short. I would never have said it out loud. Out loud I gave God the credit, the way Nabal would have if you caught him at the right hour. But in the dark, with no one watching, I added up the column in my own hand and signed my name at the bottom. So did Nabal. The man is rich and the man is blind, and the two go t

The real self has one witness.

Your Real Name Entry 3 of 5 — The Platform - Self Deception ——— Every platform has a load limit the builder never calculated honestly. That is not a metaphor about stages and microphones. It is a structural observation about what happens when a self constructed toward admiration meets the weight of real consequence. The construction felt solid during the building. The materials seemed adequate. The builder kept adding floors. But the load capacity of a platform built from emb

The constructed self is a project built on comparison, edited memory, and a deceitful heart. Jeremiah 17:9 exposes what we cannot audit from the inside.

Everyone who has ever embellished a story about themselves was not being original.