Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God! All my life long I’ll praise God, singing songs to my God as long as I live. Don’t put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead,… Read More
Osmosis of learning
How do we learn things, absorb them as truth into our inner beings, and consider as truth things we have absorbed by osmosis. (For you scientists out there, I am not using this term in the strict scientific sense, but as a usually effortless, often unconscious assimilation.) Watching a parade with my two-and-a-half-year-old grandson made… Read More
Don’t forget to ask, “Who?”
“He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.” (John1:10 NIV) A baby, hours old, turns her face toward her mother’s voice. She recognizes familiar sounds, soothing and secure from when she was being formed. A dog in the house hears the family’s car turn… Read More
Destination: Iowa
Moving every three to seven years was a fact of my life growing up. It’s wasn’t something we got to choose—that’s just the way it was. At 18, I moved east halfway across the country to go to college. Three years later and married, we moved to the Chicago area, my husband’s stomping ground. After… Read More
Planting GPS devices in your neighborhood
Biblical parable, Matthew 13:3–9 Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them. Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seeds sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. But the plants soon wilted under the… Read More
Life Demands Strength
I bought a Seers t-shirt for my son-in-law that says “Life only demands the strength you possess.” There’s a story behind this purchase. A few months ago, 16-year-old Blake Van Vark was killed in a traffic accident. My son-in-law had been both his teacher and his coach. In a Pella fundraiser put on by the… Read More
Today I was Martha
Still your mind, open the eyes of your heart (through visual imagery), join the flow of the Holy Spirit, and journal. I learned these steps to hear God’s voice recently, and I’ve been practicing. Mark Virkler suggests that if you are just learning how to listen for his voice, put yourself into one of the… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 