300 words a day

Note from Rich Dixon: This event is a flash-forward due to last week’s storm that devastated the community of Rolling Fork, Mississippi. + + + End of Week 7: I cranked out of Greenville, Mississippi on a cold, windy morning with a route and Becky’s promise to figure out our destination. I headed south into […]

A few years ago, I worked on an exercise where you ask yourself, “What would I do if I only had a week left to live?” You then answer that for a month, a year, five years, and a life. It was a good exercise. I learned some things about what I thought was important. […]

I think, growing up, that I didn’t like leftovers. Even the word isn’t likeable. It’s not what’s important or valuable. It’s what is left over. And it’s what’s for supper tonight. But we’re not really eating leftovers. Nancy planned that our meal would have enough helpings so that we could eat one helping on Saturday […]

God. We are tired. Our bodies are tired from the anticipation of what could happen and from the disruption of all our usual patterns.Our minds are tired from planning and adjusting and adapting, from practicing patience.Our hearts are weary with stories of sickness and suffering, income loss and food inadequacies.Our spirits feel brittle, as if […]

When someone has more than one crisis in a short time, the Bible character named Job is often mentioned. In the book that bears his name, we read that he lost all of his belongings, which were plentiful. He lost all of his children. He even lost his health. And that’s just in the first […]