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
Apr 4, 20205 min
Downward Ascent: Intersecting Covid-19 with Holy Week Crosses
Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 13, 20195 min
40 – thoughts on marriage after 40 years of it
We’ve always tried to spend less than we make. Eat by candlelight as often as possible (even when you don’t want to. Sometimes just...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 29, 20182 min
Dear Green Lake: Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year
Dear Green Lake Before my five year departure from Washington, I walked the frozen shores with the woman who is now my wife and after...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 15, 20184 min
Seasons of Life and Lessons in Staying and Letting Go
left to right: Martin, Director of Tauernhof, Richard, Charlie, board member of Tauernhof. “Stay a little longer” my friend Martin...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 18, 20184 min
Time heals nothing
The show has an adopted child in the family – I’m an adopted child in my family. The sister among the siblings struggles with weight –...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 6, 20184 min
The thing that mustn’t change: Use Your Gifts!
My predecessor just keep using his gifts day after day for 38 years. The difficult truth that few seem interested in hearing these days...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 29, 20184 min
“…the time we’ve been given” – The Why and How of a Personal Mission Statement
1. Coffee. Always first: Coffee 2. Bible reading while drinking the first cup. 3. Meditation (from the Bible reading) 4. Writing in the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 6, 20184 min
Your “Sphere of Influence” is calling and You must go
The church hasn’t been immune to this polarizing. We’ve mirrored the culture’s political tribal hatred, enough so that it’s increasingly...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 19, 20184 min
The Sacred Art of Unlearning
My granddaughter moved in a few weeks ago. O yeah – my daughter and son-in-law moved in too, but I’m writing about my granddaughter...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 30, 20184 min
Addressing Poverty – one by one by one by one
In the wake of the recent head tax hysteria in Seattle, I’ve been thinking a lot about Mother Teresa’s famous quote about poverty....
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 9, 20184 min
Silence, Suicide and the folly of our “left vs right” polarization
The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy… but I have come that they might have life! – Jesus the Christ Each untimely loss is tragic,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 22, 20183 min
The Collapse of Everything, and Why it’s a Source of Hope
Plunge your pole, hard, into the place you anticipate placing your foot. Look carefully. Step quickly. Go! They’ve collapsed under my...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 14, 20184 min
Facebook, Nazis, and Fake News – History shows our ongoing need for Discernment
Born in Germany and educated both there and at Oxford, Delmer was uniquely qualified to have a foot in both German and British culture, a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 7, 20184 min
Awakening the Feminine Voice in the Church – What it means and Why it Matters
The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day… life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 22, 20174 min
Lighten up! The value of Hope over rage, cynicism, and despondency
The first winter we lived in the mountains, an early storm knocked down hundreds of fir trees deep in the cascades, and those trees...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 28, 20172 min
Are you running to Win?
You are God’s uniquely handcrafted beautiful creation. You have gifts to bring to our darkening and weary world, and that means you...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 29, 20174 min
Steal, Kill, and Destroy – Stealing Time
I tell you not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. Matthew 6:29 It’s wildflower season in the mountains, and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 26, 20175 min
Steal, Kill, and Destroy – Killing Hope
Even the desert will bloom… Note: I’m presently offering a short series of the many ways in which our enemy seeks to steal, kill, and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 13, 20174 min
“Steal, Kill, and Destroy” – Your Time’s Been Stolen!
You’ve been ripped off I mean to live this year as if it were my last, and will hate every time I fall below that standard and fritter...
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