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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 4, 20239 min read
What’s First: ____ & ___!!
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, 20237 min read
Matters of the Heart: They're Literal
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, 20237 min read
Keep saying "Yes"...what I've learned through 44 years of marriage
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, 20238 min read
"Show and Tell" Reflections on how I spent my summer and what I learned...
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, 20236 min read
On Receiving Difficulties well - the gift of Hormesis
"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, 20235 min read
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, 20235 min read
Practical Forest Faith in 4 Parts
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, 20235 min read
Two Realities - is one more real? The importance living out from the right paradigm
(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, 20232 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20238 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20225 min read
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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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 21, 20228 min read
Habits for Wholeness: The Need for spirit/soul/body Hormesis
Hormesis: a theoretical phenomenon in which something that produces harmful biological effects at moderate to high doses may produce...
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