About Jeffri

The man behind Transcend Today

I was born in Medellín, Colombia at six in the morning, as the church bells were ringing. The doctor looked at my mother and said, “This child has a purpose in this world. He is here to do something for Christ.” Those words followed me my whole life — even through the years I tried to drown them out.

As a boy I asked the deep questions — why are we here? what is this for? I was an old soul early, heavy with questions the world did not seem to be asking. Then in adolescence I let science replace God in my mind — not in my chest, only in my mind — and for years I called myself an atheist, while a deeper part of me still wept at small deaths and stared at the stars too long.

Then life broke me open, the way only life can, and I prayed for the first time in years. The Father answered. That was the day I admitted: maybe.

In 2012, Ave Maria University accepted me as an international student on scholarship. I graduated in 2016, Cum Laude in Biology, formed under professors of theology, philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and the great books. I had heard the word transcend before — but it was there, in a theology class, that I first understood what it meant. Something in me recognized it as my own name. I didn’t know yet that it would name a mission.

Today I am a husband and the father of two young children, living in North Carolina. The hours I am not writing or working, I am with my family in nature, where the beauty of the Father’s creation reminds me what we are made for.

Transcend Today was given to me at Mass on October 9, 2022. The Father placed a thought in me with the weight of a command: that a journal could orient men — especially the new generations — toward a better life with Christ at the center, if only they knew and remembered that God lives in them. I nodded. I teared up. I said yes. Everything you find here is the fruit of that yes.

My prayer is that you find your way home to the Father — one day, one habit, one conversation at a time.