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Ah friends. Thank you for taking care of people who need care. For whatever reason, you are alongside what most everyone would call tragedies. A teenager left brain-dead through no fault of their own. A teenager left fatherless through no fault of their own. A teenager whose cancer did not stop. This isn’t the algorithm […]

Rich Dixon about remembering. +++  Remembering matters – remembering the right things matters even more. Too often we engrave our mistakes in marble and scribble our blessings in sand. The point isn’t pretending to forget past mistakes or pain. Writing the story of RELENTLESS GRACE was difficult because I was committed to being authentic. That […]

In the US, today is election day, though people have been voting, a practice called “early voting”, for days or weeks. Nancy and I voted on Friday, in a voting center in a church. A few days earlier, we walked into another church, this time in Hirsau in southwestern Germany. The particular building had been […]

I’m back. We went to Germany to visit our son and his family. People always ask, “Where in Germany?” I’ve tried to explain it. But it’s mostly a waste of their time and mine. I don’t know much Germany geography, and they don’t either. I know how to get from Oberhaugstett to the small bakery […]

God. We miss them. We know, of course, that to be absent from the body is to be present with you. That’s all very well for them, and for you, but we miss our loved ones. And on this All Saints Day when we have said goodbye to more loved ones that usual, our hearts […]