Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
I wrote this in my 40s, and it is evident that I grew up during the birth of the women’s movement in the 1960s. I was also raising three daughters. I imagined a conversation they might have if they were in this story—with questions coming out of our cultural experiences, which were not the same… Read More
Today’s blog includes the introduction to a new Bible Study that will be coming out this fall, called Digging Sideways. The name comes from the digging and research I needed to do to rewrite Ruth’s story (Less Than a Widow). I imagined working at an archaeological dig. Scientists choose a site, map it out in… Read More
Morning Glory,an enchanting vine with white, pink, blue, mauve, or multi-colored flowerswith dew-kissed blooms that glitter in the morning son.Once established, this vine is self-seeding,and its rapid growth can easily take over a gardenattaching to trellises and any other support structure to hold it up. We stop to admire the sight of these dew-kissed flowers… Read More
“The test shows it’s a rare form of sarcoma.” “Of course, it does.” My first, second, and third responses this time have been: “EBENEZER!” To explain this I get to use one of my favorite old words, “Hitherto.” Samuel gave a standing stone the name Ebenezer as he placed it on the land to honor… Read More
“Ich bin ein Berliner.” President John F. Kennedy gave an historic speech on June 26, 1963 to a crowd in front of the Berlin Wall. Two years earlier the Soviet Union had built this wall to keep people from fleeing to non-Communist countries, mainly West Berlin. Kennedy was praising the character of the people of… Read More
Today, a friend’s Facebook post prompted me to take some time to review my summer before entering gungho into fall. I had spent yesterday doing just that, enjoying a day of limited activity and lots of alone leisure time. Today, my response to a class writing prompt from 2023 caught my eye. It coincided with… Read More
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. (Psalm 46:1-3) Refuge is not abstract, but deeply personal. God is my refuge and strength. I know this… Read More
