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 when I tried to drown them out.
As a boy I asked the deep questions — why are we here? what is this for? — questions the Father has since answered. I know now who I am and what I am for. But there were years I did not. I was an old soul early, heavy with questions the world did not seem to be asking, watching for answers no adult around me was offering.
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.
I attended Ave Maria University, where I received a liberal arts education and graduated with a B.S. in Biology. I sat under professors of theology, philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and the great books. I had heard the word transcend before — but it was at Ave Maria, in a theology class, that I first contemplated what it actually 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. We live in North Carolina. The hours I am not writing or working, I am with my family in nature, where the beauty and perfection of the Father’s creation reminds me what we are made for.
Transcend Today — the journal you are holding — 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 us. I nodded. I teared up. I said yes. What you hold is the fruit of that yes, completed by His grace in May 2026.
My prayer is that you find your way home to the Father — one day, one habit, one conversation at a time.