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God. We feel forgotten. We know that we should remember that you are with us. We know that we should turn to you and be comforted by you when we are in trouble. We know that we feel abandoned by you. We are sure that it’s our fault, the abandonment, or your fault, the abandonment. […]

Rich Dixon asks tough, honest, helpful questions. +++ It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say we are living through some difficult times. Just in the last week or so we’ve encountered a few people who thought things were okay. Suddenly, through circumstances they couldn’t have foreseen or controlled, they find themselves living on […]

I have heard people in hard situations, in grief-filled moments, in procedure-pending moments say, “I don’t understand.” And I have heard well-meaning people say to them, “Don’t question God. You need to have faith.” I usually turn to the one in the pain. “I don’t understand either,” I say. “I’m not sure why you need […]

God. We need you. We need something or someone that can anchor us.We need something or someone that can steady us.We need something or someone that can stop changing all the time. Because everyone and everything is changing all the time. We are fretting. On account of evil doers. And we aren’t sure who the […]

Sashi, a malamute-wolf-huskie mix,* entered our lives in 2024. She’s the sweetest dog ever! She never barks. She tells us she’s sad by howling when we leave and she can’t come along. Her only flaw is that she and our cat don’t get along… but that may be more his fault than hers. And she […]