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December 7, 2025

Hard choices

We live on the horns of a dilemma. On one hand is the opportunity and responsibility to cultivate the best of the past and continue to harvest its rich blessings. On the other hand is the opportunity and responsibility of God’s invitation through the prophet Isaiah, “Do not remember the former things, or consider the Continue reading

Ruminations

Advent, change, choices, church finances, cost of ministry, doing a new thing, endowment funds, financial stewardship, Habakkuk, hard choices, hope, Isaiah, loss, trust in God, trust in the future, trust in the past
April 17, 2022

Plotting resurrection

“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen” (Luke 24:5). On the first day of the week some women came to the cemetery to find the body of Jesus. They did what any of us would have done. They came looking for him where they had Continue reading

Ruminations

burial, death, E.B. White, Easter, future, grace, graveside, grief, hope, Katherine White, loss, new life, planting bulbs, remembering, resurrection, starting over, tomorrow, when the dream falls apart

About Me

Rich Neal is, in no particular order, a wordsmith and graphic designer; lover of typography, books, and publishing; photographer; contemplative; saunterer; and a retired and still-active pastor. He claims neither special wisdom nor particularly deep insight into life, only occasional glimpses of what lies behind the veil along the way. He shares them here in the hope of connecting the pieces of life’s puzzle that come to him in the journey and would consider it a gift if sharing them also connected him with others who travel an unmarked path toward the same unknown end.

loss

Hard choices

Plotting resurrection