Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
Dig into the scriptures via a new method: DOODLING If you’re looking for a new way to spend time in the scriptures listening for what God has to say to you today, you might try doodling. Here’s the method I use (adapt it to fit your own style): Read the verses and pray about them.… Read More
A workshop was offered at our church based on the book Praying in Color by Sybil MacBeth in which she introduces an active, visual, and meditative form of intercessory prayer. Basically, it was a way to use doodling to quiet your mind and focus your attention on the conversation you were engaged in with God. While many of… Read More
I think it was my mom who first gave me pencil and paper. She read to her six children, often all of us together, and doodling helped me sit still when I was really too young to follow the story line completely—I drew about what she was reading. It worked so well, that she continued… Read More
Submission is not something we in America do well. I can’t speak for those in other countries, because I don’t have enough experience in and of your cultures. But individual rights and privileges—something I believe in and support—can lead us to think only of ourselves and what we deserve and have rights to. Individualistic thinking—what’s… Read More
Sometimes doodling helps you to take something into yourself and come to a deeper understanding. A number of years ago I doodled The Lord’s Prayer in a notebook. I came across these pictures today and found they still drew me further into the conversation with God. What would your doodles look like? God, there is none… Read More
When my circumstances stink, when I’m up against a wall, when I’m surrounded and the harder I try the deeper I sink, when I feel alone and abandoned, when others hurt me… God says, “Don’t be afraid; trust me. Boldly go out on the mission I laid out for you. I feel your pain–I’ve suffered… Read More
Has God chosen you for a specific task? I’m in the grandma stage of my life, so I have a lot of years and choosings to look back at. I realize that God chose me for certain tasks at different stages in my life. It was only about ten years ago that I thought, “Aha.… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 