Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
Open the Bible and look. What do you see? Words. Sentences. Paragraphs.And where do these words come from? They are God’s word—inspired by the Holy Spirit and written down.Look again at the Bible. What else do you see? Nothing, really.Or, you see a blank page. The page is empty, a white page on which words… Read More
“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
If you are just learning how to listen to God’s voice, it may be helpful toput yourself into one of the stories from the Gospels. Identify with one of the characters, visualize yourself in the story, and look for Jesus. It was easy for me to pick the story—the account in Luke 10 about two… Read More
We were hiking in a Minnesota forest, and suddenly the forest ended. The path became a boardwalk through a swampy meadow, and the informational signs told us about the sudden change in geography. Where the swampland is now, there had been land cleared for farmland and grazing fields, with occasional groves. Years ago, a lightning… Read More
I can’t cook in a messy kitchen. I have a brain that can be hard to corral, and the hours between 3 and 6 are my lowest energy times of the day. If I have to clean up everyone else’s mess first, I get cranky. Okay, let’s be honest, while I am making a meal… Read More
ONE HOUSE—THREE GENERATIONS Series “What’s for dinner?” I don’t like this question. Now that I got that off my chest, I’ll tell you why I like cooking dinner for our full house. When we moved into our mixed-generational house together, I agreed to cook, but asked for input on meal ideas. Lynn and I usually… Read More
ONE HOUSE—THREE GENERATIONS Series Your kids are watching. When my mother-in-law had a stroke, my husband’s parents needed more support, so they moved to a senior-living complex in in our town. My husband’s father died a few years later, and Mom was on her own. She had Sunday dinners at our house and we took… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 