The Vagus Nerve: Where Spirit meets Body meets Jesus
Note to reader: This is part three in a series about the relationship between your spiritual health and the health of your spiritual...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Nov 4
- 9 min
What’s First: ____ & ___!!
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(2)Note to reader: This is part two in an ongoing series on the relationship of heart health to spiritual health. You can read the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 30
- 7 min
Matters of the Heart: They're Literal
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(1)The tribe of people who still believe in God, still pray, still seek to live out from the basis of spiritual realities, but aren’t...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 9
- 7 min
Keep saying "Yes"...what I've learned through 44 years of marriage
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(1)September 8th, 1979 - It's a hot day, but there'll be a wedding that evening and since it's my wedding, we spend some time together as a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 2
- 8 min
"Show and Tell" Reflections on how I spent my summer and what I learned...
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(2)I've been away from writing for the summer and now, as I return, I wanted to share with you what I've been doing. I was privileged to...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 26
- 6 min
On Receiving Difficulties well - the gift of Hormesis
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(1)"Consider it pure joy when you encounter various trials... " James 1 "...we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 7
- 5 min
The Art of Receiving: A Habit Foundational to Wholeness
Continuing a series that refers to the Forest Faith meditation and saturation prayer, this offering considers the foundational priority...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 18
- 5 min
Practical Forest Faith in 4 Parts
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(1)Every morning I wake up and walk to my office where I enjoy a cup of coffee and a short reading from the Bible. Then I do a little...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 4
- 5 min
Two Realities - is one more real? The importance living out from the right paradigm
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(1)(taken from my 4.28.23 morning journal entry) Problem #1: WE LIVE IN A WORLD BUILT ON DOMINATION SYSTEMS this, I wonder, is perhaps the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 11
- 2 min
Practice Resurrection
It’s not my poem… but it’s my sentiment. Thanks to Wendell Barry for decades of calling us to our higher, truer selves. Love the quick...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 8
- 6 min
Two Kinds of Crosses: Good Friday Observations in the midst of madness
Earlier this week I was making my way down the mountain to do some shopping and on the way heard an interview of the author of “A Fever...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Mar 22
- 7 min
Living out from the Deeper Magic
We tend to live our lives on the surface: buying and selling, marrying and raising children, accumulating experiences and stuff, getting...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jan 21
- 5 min
Share it! Why you need to be giving yourself away
Note: In my previous post, I laid the foundation of "REST" as one of three principles needed if we're to remain on a trajectory toward...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jan 5
- 8 min
Three Key Words for 2023
If you had to pick a single word and let it sink so deeply into the fibers of your being, determining your priorities and mindset, what...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 22, 2022
- 5 min
Receiving Gifts - harder, and more important, than you might believe
"I'm tired of not being enough - not disciplined enough, good enough, pure enough, smart enough. All religion has done is given me a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Nov 19, 2022
- 7 min
Companionship with Christ - Life's best gift, seen through a dog's eyes
If everyone's weary in different ways from these past years, I think my weariness centers most around esoteric arguments over theological...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
True Colors: The Necessity of Loss and Change in our Lives
A walk around Gold Creek Pond has, for the years I've lived here in the mountains, always been an act of worship. This year, the seasons...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 17, 2022
- 4 min
An encouraging word for those who are anxious - plus a new video
The World is on fire and getting hotter - The war in Ukraine has escalated to the place where nuclear rhetoric is getting loud, leaving...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 28, 2022
- 7 min
Digest these Four Truths Daily for your humble journey to wholeness
Everyone's looking for something; meaning, peace, security, intimacy, hope, satisfaction, security, and much more. Everyone's looking for...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 10, 2022
- 5 min
Ground Truth - The Most Important Habit you need
I want to let you know about what I have found to be the most important habit in my life these days, and why I think you should make it a...
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