300 words a day

That’s what the woman said to her sister, talking about the time they’d had since the diagnosis until now. It was a time of clarifying what mattered to them, about putting arrangements into place, about tying up loose ends. I kind of laughed when she said it. Not loud enough for her to hear. I […]

Rich Dixon is thinking about who we might be serving: +++ Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters.” He went on, “Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” I think many of us – including myself – have been […]

“What are you asking God?” I said. I ask that question often when I’m in slow conversations with people. I don’t mean that I’m bored and so I toss out an odd question to shake things up. I mean the kind of conversation where I’ve left room for the other person to talk. And then […]

“God, I ask for courage for this family.”  That’s what I often say when I’m standing next to a hospital bed. It’s in my top five requests, along with requests for peace and for presence and for wisdom and whatever seems appropriate for the particular situation.  The other day, as I was asking for courage, […]

God. We think that we have it bad. And we do have it hard, often, looking at ourselves, looking in the moment. I remind people often that we cannot compare grief. That said, the world Moses was born into was pretty rough. The government wanted him dead before he was born. The government wanted everyone […]