300 words a day

I wrote this post and the paraphrase more than a decade ago. +++ It happens all the time in songs (and in stories.) For the first two verses, everything is bad. And then the hero comes, the story turns, the cavalry arrives, the light dawns. We love to read these stories, to sing these songs, […]

Years ago, I read about a college president who had a practice of placing a statue of a fox in the college quad on a random snowy day. When it happened, classes were canceled for the day. Papers that would have been due were not. Speeches that would have been given were not. And because […]

Rich Dixon takes us back to Elk River for more reflection. +++ As usual, God had a different plan when we met Kelley on Friday evening. I talked about The Dream. The audience asked lots of questions about the bike, my injury, how we’d gotten to this point. Then we were overwhelmed when Kelley shared […]

Remember when I talked about being fearlessly helpful a couple weeks ago? I’m thinking about that a lot. I was thinking about it when I started working on a message for next Sunday. One of the texts includes Micah 6:8. He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.    And what does the Lord require of you?To act […]

Every night, as I lay me down to sleep, I pray a prayer I learned three years ago. It starts, “Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night.” I started praying it every night early in the pandemic. It was how I could remember coworkers -RNs, tech, physicians – […]