Deacon Chris is a faithful man of many talents, but if you're looking for a way to test his humility, DO NOT challenge him at Ping-Pong. He's pretty confident that he could beat you in a match. However, if you presented him with oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, he'd share dear memories of his mother and childhood - recalling that these cookies remind him of everything good in the world. He also enjoys scuba diving at night - feeling the fullness of silence, weightlessness, and calming mystery. If a day goes by in which he hears and believes "you are my beloved son with whom I am well pleased" he considers it a success. To enhance the experience of that passage, he starts each morning in dark and silence, letting go of the temptation to plan the day, and instead receive it as the sun rises.