300 words a day

The other day, I posted this while on my walk: Morning. Yesterday I listened to Alan Noble talk about courage as endurance. We think about having courage for some big event or big attack. He suggests that the person showing up day after day to provide care in the face of resistance for example is […]

Rich Dixon is reflecting a bit.  +++ I’m wondering if my last post was a bit harsh. I try to write about my own journey. I’ve said many times – I’m not qualified to tell anyone else how to follow Jesus. Re-reading last Wednesday’s reflection, I wonder if that’s how it came across. If so, I […]

Ed had a heart attack. I know now that’s a generic word for several different problems, leading to several different treatments with several different outcomes. At the time, I didn’t know any of those things. I just knew Ed. And I knew Carol, his wife. I knew that Ed was laying in the bed in […]

I often struggle with asking for healing. It’s an occupational hazard, I suppose, of seeing so much death. But I often will say to God, “Let them know how much you love them and that you are here.” I didn’t realized until yesterday that I’ve been using words that Paul used. In a letter to […]

God. It’s been a hard week. I feel like we say that to you a lot, these days. We used to be able to predict what would happen in a week. Then we resigned ourselves to 2020 Bingo cards of disaster and disruption. “Didn’t see that coming,” we say.“I thought it couldn’t get worse, and then it did,” we say. And […]