A patient may be in the very last stages of a disease. A patient may have had breathing support withdrawn. A patient may have life-threatening injuries which are, in fact, threatening life. They are no doing well – NDW. As chaplains, we pay attention to those names, those rooms, those families. We stop by a […]

Rich Dixon is thinking about his thinking. +++ Last time, in the middle of nowhere, a man demonstrated unexpected generosity. In hindsight, it would be easy to romanticize a God-inspired moment. Frankly, I’m ashamed of my reaction. I judged a man based solely on outward appearance. I didn’t even say thank you. To be brutally […]

Part one from yesterday. And then, we find that God gives peace at moments that make no sense. At times when by every right, everything emotionally should be cascading in, there can be peace. Not a denial, but an acknowledgment that yes, indeed, there is cancer, but God has a clue. Not a denial but […]

I understand being anxious. Not in the “looking forward to” sense or the “can hardly wait” sense but in the “aaaiiieee” sense. And I understand that what I’m about to say is easier to say than to do. But that isn’t a reason to not say it. Paul makes a very simple statement in Philippians […]

God. We wish you would say something. In the chaos and storming of social media, we wish that you would say “Stop”. Like you did standing in a boat in a lake in Galilee two millennia ago. And in the sudden calmness, we would say, “God.” And we might weep. We forget that we can do that ourselves. We […]