You are waiting. You aren’t sure what’s happening. You can’t see to the end of today. And you are waiting. It reminds you of that summer before your senior year of high school, the summer that you worked third shift. All alone in the building, all alone working on the computer.  Sometimes alone is okay. […]

Rich Dixon is back after a week at the Colorado Mountain Tour. +++ I started “following” Jesus about 40 years ago. Why the quotes? Because I wasn’t really “following” so much as stalking. I learned a lot about Him, but we rarely spoke. Not really. One thing confused me. Pastors kept talking about counting the […]

I wanted to keep talking with Hilary, but the pager went off and I headed to the emergency department. Down the hall, down the elevator, through a few double doors, and I was there. I was talking most of the trip. “Hilary is right you know, Jesus,” I said. “if we read that first part […]

Hillary had been in room 6161 for three weeks. She couldn’t remember the first two weeks, between the pain meds and the breathing mask. “BiPAP,” she said. “If you are going to tell my story, you have to sound like you know what you are talking about.” “And I can remember it,” she said. “I […]

God. We made it to August. I’m not sure you care. About August, that is. You care deeply about us. You call us to live in ways that show that kind of care to others. You point out where we are falling short of caring, Not to make us feel bad about it or to […]