Richard Dahlstrom
Moving life from bland to beautiful
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Category Archives: Rule of Life
This one weird trick will change your life: Slow Down
The tree in the backyard is growing, relentlessly, powerfully, and slowly. Our children are growing, as we do too, slowly; imperceptibly every day. The meat in the crock pot is tenderizing; slowly. Our world, very much alive and changing all … Continue reading
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Tagged body, coffee with God, discipleship, Jesus, outdoors, Rule of Life, sport
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A better story…on what to do with the rest of your life, and saying yes
(I’m happy to introduce my youngest daughter, Holly Dahlstrom, to you. Her joy, courage, and love of people inspire me. Her capacity to hear God’s voice and follow is a reminder to us all that “a better story” awaits, if … Continue reading
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Don’t find your passion—find your lover
Graduation is in the air, and David Brooks’ excellent article about the wrong-headed speeches he’s heard this graduation season is a great jumping-off point for a very important conversation. Brooks makes the important observation that today’s generation is entering a … Continue reading
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The rest of the story—and a way to share it
Yes. Of course. Westboro Baptist church is planning a protest for President Obama’s visit to Joplin, Mo., to inflict a little hate and misery, in Jesus’ name. That the rapture didn’t happen this past Saturday was in the news as … Continue reading
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Hope has primary colors…
…and those colors aren’t personal peace and prosperity (“give me my stuff and leave me alone”), individualism, and “heaven when I die.” Or perhaps I should say, those aren’t God’s primary colors. I love how God has taken all the … Continue reading
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Crazy Confidence in a Shaky World
It’s available for all of us. It’s not contingent (thank God) on circumstances. It’s able to move us, faster than a glacier, but slower than jet, towards a quietness and confidence that enables us to be people of hope. Every. … Continue reading
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Climbing Kilimanjaro step by step – Lessons for America from Africa
In about 11 hours our team from Seattle will board a flight that will take us (eventually, by the 5th airport) to Seattle, and we’ll be home, our exploratory trip of this region completed. We came here in order to … Continue reading
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First Resolution: five options for five minutes of prayer
Life, it seems, is coming at us faster than ever. Longer hours at work, more stress, commutes, repairs, exercise, relationships, and endless social connections that encourage us to remain linked in, with updated status reports and timeless tweets – add … Continue reading
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Good News…Great Joy…All People
Over the past two years, the church I pastor in Seattle has invested well over 300 thousand dollars in providing clean water for villages in Africa. We do this through the excellent work of “Living Water International” because they don’t … Continue reading
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Christmas Vacation: filling hospitality with joy instead of tension
Looking for a better way of being together than “Christmas Vacation”? read on: “Dwelling” is a great word. It can mean the space in which we occupy our lives: “My dwelling was built in 1928, and leans a little bit … Continue reading
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