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God. We are anxious. We are anxious to and anxious about.We are longing to and longing for.And we are, a little, dreading. Then we read about Moses on a mountain with you. You tell him you care. And in the middle of the cloud of your presence, hearing the whispers of your voice, with the experience of eighty years […]

“Would you like to talk that through?” my colleague said. I was going to be talking to a family about a situation. I’ve talked with lots of families about situations, but never as a chaplain, needing to convey precise information. A colleague had helped me understand the information. She’d helped me with the details, with […]

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 A patient may have had breathing support withdrawn.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 […]