300 words a day

A few years ago, I wrote a phrase on my whiteboard: “Fearlessly helpful.” It was an aspiration, I think. I wanted to stop being afraid of offering help. Afraid that I was doing it wrong. Afraid that what helps that person might not help this person. It’s a mixture of communication anxiety, over-thinking, imposter syndrome, […]

 Rich Dixon is away this week. It seemed worth sharing this post from March 2022. +++ I’m struggling to process the last 3-4 weeks. I tend to be a bit single-minded. It’s difficult to turn away from images of carnage and mass murder, and I zoom in on my sense of outrage and helplessness. How […]

When the angel told them to head back to Israel, I wonder whether Joseph had hoped to go back to Bethlehem where the shepherds knew the baby was amazing. Instead, they have to go back to a place where everyone knows their story. Now they are back where she got pregnant in suspicious circumstances, back […]

I’ve read the text from Matthew before. An angel tells Joseph to take the baby and his mother and flee to Egypt, because Herod is going to search for Jesus to kill him. And then Herod’s soldiers come to Bethlehem and kill the boys two and younger. They probably don’t find many, numerically. In the […]

That year is done. We know that years don’t really contain events, but they are our way of keeping track of what happens. Some of us are relieved that 2022 is done. It’s been a year with painful moments and tragic events.Some of us are relieved that 2023 is here. It will let us feel […]