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Rich Dixon is here again. +++ Blessed are the peacemakers – we recognize it as one of the Beatitudes, we’ve heard and read it many times. Until recently, I didn’t understand what it truly meant, or how difficult authentic peacemaking might be. I always thought peacemaking meant stopping war. Until someone pointed out that brothels […]

You may have read these words at thisishard.substack.com. I thought they may be helpful here, too. +++ Nancy and I go to Paradise (a town in Michigan) every year or two in October. It’s a short trip between hospital Tuesdays and hospital Sundays. But it’s important to us. This year, we took a friend along. […]

God. We are weary and worried and wishful. We are weary from all the voices and all the choices and all the things that break.We are worried from all the stories of what might go wrong and who might go wrong.We are wishful for escape and order and answers. We’re not sure whether it helps […]

From Rich Dixon Last time I talked about a bunch of questions about building bridges to what I see as an increasing population of people living on the margins. As frequently happens, my conversations with Jesus about this quandary brought me an insight in the form of a quote from Father Gregory Boyle. Speaking at […]

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. […]