06 - Moments of Atonement - The Monastery Got it Wrong...

In this first episode of Moments of Atonement, I reflect on a truth that’s been stirring in my spirit:

We weren’t meant to escape the world to find God—we were meant to re-enter it with love.

This episode explores how true atonement doesn’t happen in silence, or on a mountaintop, or inside the walls of a spiritual bubble. It happens in the chaos—in the scroll, in the trigger, in the raw moment where we choose love instead of defense.

I share how I’ve come to believe that the real monastery is the marketplace. That spiritual maturity isn’t about isolation—it’s about being in the mess of it all and still radiating compassion. Still giving love. Still becoming whole.

This is a reclamation of what it means to atone:

Not to punish ourselves.

But to return to love in the face of everything that tempts us not to.