Quotes by Richard Dahlstrom

But what we did yesterday isnt ever really the point or the question.The question is, are you open, by virtue of your relationship with this new Lover of yours, to being challenged in new ways, invited in new ways, to participate in what God is doing? The overwhelming testimony of the Bible is that too many finish growing long before they have finished living, and so they complete their days sitting on their assets. Thats hardly the abundant life that Jesus came to give.

When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didnt tell us to go to church. He didnt tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place to place in search of just the right programming to entertain us. He told us to get out and actually do the stuff hed already been doing, painting the hope of Gods reign on the canvas of Gods world. He told us were artists.

We will never become the people of hope and blessing were meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.

Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love.