300 words a day

Rich Dixon is back. +++ I’m going to do something a bit different and respond to one of Jon’s posts. It’s the story of Martha and Mary. More accurately, the story of Martha getting upset because she didn’t think Mary was doing her share. And she wanted Jesus to notice. I think I’ve told you […]

Buried in the middle of the prayer is a simple daily request. “Give us this day our daily bread.” It doesn’t feel like a demand. I hear it as a request, actually. There is a poignancy to it. At a time when day laborers depended on receiving their wages daily so they could buy that day’s […]

God We don’t understand. At any given moment around this hospital those words describe someone’s heart. We don’t understand why the treatment isn’t working. Or why it is working. We don’t understand why they are still together after 68 years. Or why this relationship isn’t working. We don’t understand why so many things are happening […]

So Martha finally erupted. And Jesus talked to her. Not in the way she wanted. Jesus did not tell Mary to get up and help. He simply told Martha that she needed to pay attention, to not get distracted about the WHY of the work. On the other hand, Jesus didn’t tell Martha to stop […]

Rich Dixon has us thinking about implications. +++ Does an idea ever rattle around in your brain, and you just can’t stop thinking about it? A couple of weeks ago, I told you about Dick Foth speaking to the Freedom Tour community. I keep hearing him say, in his calm, grandfatherly voice, “Everything that happens […]