In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was…

- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

My name is Mark Crozier Murphy and I’m the author of this blog. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand with my wife and kids. I work as a psychotherapist.

This blog began as attempt to discover where I stand in relation to Christianity as a middle adult, where, as Dante said, we may lose ‘the straight path’ and enter ‘a dark wood’.

As I’ve gone on, the blog has become less about Christianity per se and more about the one who is seeing, searching, and longing.

Image above: Diego Velazquez, Jospeh’s Bloody Coat Presented to Jacob (1630).

All photographs and drawings in this blog, unless otherwise specified, are my own.

All quotes from the Bible on this blog, unless otherwise stated, are taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), Catholic Edition.

This blog is made with the support and expertise of my son, Arlo, without whom I would still be yelling at this screen.