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Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 11, 20144 min read

Fiercely Interdependent

Fiercely Interdependent – My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 5, 20144 min read

Kindness shown to strangers…

“I was a stranger…” It’s Saturday when we leave Schladming, Austria, a town with which I’m familiar through twenty years of visits for...

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Eternity in our hearts – Leaning into our longings

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 29, 20144 min read

Eternity in our hearts – Leaning into our longings

Most years, the first or second week of December, I’m in the little town of Schladming, in the Austrian Alps, to teach at a Bible school...

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Light for Light – The joyous necessity of shedding Stuff

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 22, 20144 min read

Light for Light – The joyous necessity of shedding Stuff

All this has been unfolding at the same time I’ve been preparing to embark on a sabbatical journey, which will begin with 40 days of...

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Obscurity has its privileges. Answers to feelings of insignificance.

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 17, 20143 min read

Obscurity has its privileges. Answers to feelings of insignificance.

In just a few short days, my wife and I will be off to Europe where we’ll trek through the Alps, fully expecting to find the fingerprints...

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“A different plan” – Three Postures you need when Change Comes Knocking

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 14, 20145 min read

“A different plan” – Three Postures you need when Change Comes Knocking

It was supposed to be the Cascades… I spoke with a couple last week who lost their child to cancer at the age of six. As we talked of...

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Adaptation to sameness – a skill to nurture and keep

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 7, 20144 min read

Adaptation to sameness – a skill to nurture and keep

The training of the body of is vital for people like us, who have spent most of our waking hours during adulthood sitting in chairs. ...

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95th minute… 50th year… 26th mile. Why Endurance Matters

Richard Dahlstrom

Jun 24, 20144 min read

95th minute… 50th year… 26th mile. Why Endurance Matters

every minute matters.. especially the last one!! I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith – Paul...

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Stones, Doors, and the vital necessity of remembering

Richard Dahlstrom

Jun 10, 20142 min read

Stones, Doors, and the vital necessity of remembering

Today’s “door picture” will remind us of my wife’s 13 years of faithful service at Seattle Pacific University. Where, in the wake of...

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From Germany to Seattle – finding hope in the midst of grief

Richard Dahlstrom

Jun 6, 20143 min read

From Germany to Seattle – finding hope in the midst of grief

My oldest daughter is a Seattle Pacific Alum and writes from Germany this morning as she ponders the tragic shootings here in Seattle and...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Jun 3, 20144 min read

Postcard from Fresno…

I process by writing… and I’m here in Fresno because my mom’s resting, and ready to go home and be with Jesus. Here’s what I’m thinking...

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Achilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendon

Richard Dahlstrom

May 27, 20145 min read

Achilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendon

The Achilles story is appropriate because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes. Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...

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Why “fear of death tomorrow” prevents “joy of life today”

Richard Dahlstrom

May 14, 20144 min read

Why “fear of death tomorrow” prevents “joy of life today”

a book about the importance of opening oneself to direct encounter with creation, in preparation for a 40 day hike in the Alps this...

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Success, Sabbaticals, Loss, and Heading to the Alps

Richard Dahlstrom

May 9, 20147 min read

Success, Sabbaticals, Loss, and Heading to the Alps

If success is a mountain, I’m an accidental climber. Has it ever happened to you? You’ve been working hard for goals you believe in for...

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Richard Dahlstrom

May 8, 20142 min read

Life is a Journey: Step by Step

There’s a hearing. It comes to us in dreams, or songs, or after a conversation in the corner booth of a Tuesday night with the one we...

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Richard Dahlstrom

May 6, 20143 min read

Fashionable Justice is Dangerous

It’s high time that the realities of suffering, racism, oppression, and ongoing injustice rose to the top of our collective...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 29, 20146 min read

In praise of healthy lament

Dissociative disorder is defined as a “disruption or breakdown of memory, awareness, identity or perception.” It’s a common occurrence...

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Taking thought for tomorrow – Lessons in making life meaningful from ants and firewood

Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 23, 20145 min read

Taking thought for tomorrow – Lessons in making life meaningful from ants and firewood

On that same sofa, a tilt of the head to the left and I see the fire, which represents warmth, safety (when confined in the firebox), and...

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Musings on Boston Strong and why Beating Fear matters so much.

Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 21, 20144 min read

Musings on Boston Strong and why Beating Fear matters so much.

Fear is a net which evil casts over us that we might become ensnared and fall. Those who are afraid have already fallen. D. Bonhoeffer I...

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Killing the Power Play – Lessons from World Vision and Church History

Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 2, 20147 min read

Killing the Power Play – Lessons from World Vision and Church History

gotta kill the power play It’s been over week now since World Vision acted, the Evangelical world reacted, and hundreds of us wrote about...

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