God. We feel disconnected. Isolated. Lonely. Even when we are with people all day long, helping, serving, working, we feel disconnected.Even with invisible community connections of chat, we feel lonely.And when we are away from home, away from routine, away from what we know best and do best, we feel isolated. We feel far from […]

God. It’s the end of another calendar week. For some of us, it’s the end of a work week. For some of us it’s the beginning of a long work weekend. For some of us, we’re not sure what today is. So I ask you for peace right now. In our anxiety, be our consolation. […]

The son of an acquaintance. The husband, dad, brother, son, uncle of good friends. The third patient for an ICU nurse in a couple weeks. People that you and I know keep dying. Our friends keep losing the people they love and care for. It doesn’t, and it won’t, stop. I acknowledged to a family […]

More from Rich Dixon +++ Last time we ended with one of those simplistic cliches: We decided to take the first step and trust that He’d show us the next one. Hard to believe, but we really did complete Day 1, 38 miles from Lake Itasca to Bemidji, with no plan for Day 2. There […]

Nancy and I took a drive Sunday afternoon. [Actually, it was on a Sunday afternoon in 2015. But this seemed worth rerunning] In the middle of traffic on I-75, I was telling her about my current lack of emotional margin. A number of projects and issues are running in the background of my heart these […]