300 words a day

A few months ago, we bought a new shower curtain. We had changed the color of the bathroom, and seafoam green didn’t fit anymore. We found the new one at Walmart. It came with new hooks for the curtain and the liner, metal ones, bent into a “s” shape. I installed them and cleaned and […]

Rich Dixon is thinking about new ways to think: +++ I’m thinking about this short parable. “Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” […]

You may have heard the formula: “Sometimes God says ‘Yes’, sometimes ‘no’, sometimes ‘wait.” It’s a way to talk about our sense that God doesn’t respond to prayer in the ways we want. As we’re reading through Mark, we find stories where Jesus says none of those things. He asks a question. He introduces a […]

God. We wonder all the time why things happen. Mostly, we wonder why bad things happen. Good things like flowers happen, and we are glad. We seldom wonder what we did to deserve them. We often think we worked to earn them. But bad things, like pandemics and wars and accidents and heart illness and […]