300 words a day

I read the end of Matthew 7 the other day. You may know it. It’s one of the stories Jesus tells, about a wise man who builds on rock and a foolish man who builds on sand. When I was a little kid, we sang one of those kid songs with kid motions. We built […]

I’m heading to work in a few minutes. I don’t have much time. I’ll go to the hospital and have short conversations with people heading into the operating room or the scanner. I don’t have much time. I’ll probably talk with a family member or two who said, “I didn’t know he would go so […]

In the old days, when I was a pastor, a big part of my job was giving people permission. Not in the sense that I held the keys and made the rules. Not in the sense of making people raise their hands and ask permission. More in the sense that people would describe what they […]

If I’ve mentioned this before, I apologize. Sometimes we need to repeat things, even to ourselves. The other day, I stopped to talk to a patient. We chatted briefly, but I knew that she didn’t need to be entertaining visitors. I asked her what she would like me to ask God for on her behalf. […]