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Rich Dixon is rethinking interruptions. +++ I’ll begin with this quote as a nudge to you and me. What if someone needs you to do what God has called you to do? Earlier this spring I spoke to a park supervisor about one of our rest stops. He was honestly surprised that we wanted to be […]

Hi friends. Nancy suggested that I talk about branches today. I think it was on her mind because of cleaning up a bunch of small branches that blew out of the trees in our back yard on Sunday evening. Or because of the large branch that fell in our neighbor’s yard. Or the one that […]

On Friday, I went on my usual daily walk around the neighborhood. It was, by my usual measures, a failure. I started later than usual. I was slower than usual. I only walked a mile, where I’ve been trying to get closer to three each morning. Just as when I was running regularly until a […]

God. Everyone in the story is dead. Abraham. Isaac. Jacob. Joseph. Moses. Aaron. And countless kings who support and opposed them. And countless women, unnamed here, but mentioned elsewhere. Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel, Leah, Shiphrah, Puah, Miriam, Zipporah. All of them lived and died. Worried and wondered and worked. And heard from you. When the […]

Reflections on the costs of following Jesus and on the true cost of asking God for what we want