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God. We come to you today not wanting to inconvenience you. Like Ahaz, we do not want to ask you for the wrong amount of anything, The impossible to reach, The open-handed generosity you offer. We believe we are polite. We believe we do not deserve much, your humble obedient servants. But what we call […]

They died less than an hour apart in the same hospital. I’d met one, I’d never heard of the other. One death was sudden, one was not surprising. As I talked with their families, I learned that each had loved and was deeply loved. And their lives were remarkably different. You have to take my […]

The man was dying. Not actively, as we say when we are confident that death will come in less than hundreds of minutes. We were talking. The dying wasn’t as quickly as he wanted. He was thirsty. The medication and the pain were drying his mouth. He gestured with his head to a plastic cup […]

Rich Dixon is thinking. +++ I’ve been pondering this idea: Faith is not a synonym for belief.Faith is the trust behind our beliefs AND our doubts. It took me a while to realize my faith is constant, but my beliefs tend to shift and grow. And I certainly have all sorts of doubts and questions […]