A prayer for the fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

God We are in a hospital. We want to be healed. We would almost be willing to dip ourselves in a dirty river if you would guarantee that we would be healed. We confess.We confess that we’d rather have one big miracle and be done than have tiny steps of obedience.We confess that we prefer […]

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A slow journey to a smile.

I want to offer you some encouragement this morning. I want to give you a moment to smile. I don’t want to offer you ten steps to live a better life, or eight ways to pray better, or six easy steps to get over your grief and live your best life. That last phrase may […]

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Eternal Consequences

Rich Dixon is thinking about the riding that happened last week. +++ Dick Foth honored us by speaking during lunch at last week’s FREEDOM TOUR CLASSIC. Dick offered profound wisdom, as he always does, but one thing stood out. He said everything that happened – riding a bike, walking, handing out water, providing directions, setting […]

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The next half.

Today is the start of the next half of 2025. I started the day a little early, with a phone call to go to the hospital to help a family in the first minutes after the death of their person. Ten minutes later, I got a call that the family wasn’t going to the hospital. […]

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