300 words a day

Rich Dixon is back with an invitation. +++ A while back a friend told me a story. With his permission, I’ll share three things he repeated to his kids nearly every day from the time they were old enough to understand. Each day at breakfast he would recite these principles: I’m sure lots of conversation […]

So there will be tensions that happen when someone chooses to live their life following Jesus. Not, of course, that following means being mean, being divisive, being demeaning, being critical. The two greatest commandments are, according to Jesus, to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. […]

Sometimes as chaplains we have to say tough things. Perhaps the toughest thing for many families is this: “Hallmark families don’t exist in the real world.“ You know, families where the story turns out perfect. If there is tension, a card makes it all better. If there are siblings, they may be cranky on the […]

God. We’re stopped now. Our bodies at rest, sitting or standing, or laying here. But our minds are not at rest, racing around a track to catch understanding of what is happening, why we are in this situation, now, in this place. Our hearts are beating faster with the adrenaline of fear of what could […]

Some connections to my writing and speaking about grief. +++ There is, in the Bible in Revelation 21, an image of tears being wiped away. And no more tears or death or mourning or crying or pain. It’s a fixture in funerals, it’s a last reading. I hear it, from time to time, used as […]