Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
An Old Testament Story of Faith, Judges 6-7 Who was Gideon? He was the man hiding in a winepress to thresh wheat when the Angel of God greeted him, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” Taken aback, Gideon skipped right past the “mighty warrior” part and whined in the winepress, “If the Lord is with us, why has all… Read More
Who are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Is there more to this life? Will you recognize it when it comes? Or are your circumstances so tough that you’re having second thoughts? Even John the Baptist got confused. Life hurts. All you feel, see, and taste is pain, PAIN, PAIN! As you’re living, as… Read More
Noah spent 120 years in advent—that’s how long he spent waiting and “becoming”for the big natural disaster that God told him was coming. He had a few things to do to get ready—like build a boat that was as long as a football field plus half. He had to get buy-in from his wife and… Read More
This is the story of a beauty who was to be married to a beast, but it’s not a fable or a Disney movie. It takes place during Bible times in Israel, when David—who would soon be king—was hiding out from King Saul who wanted to kill him. Abigail came from a devout family, so… Read More
Prayer is a conversationwith an awesome God whocreated me to walk in Eden garden,who lives inside me, makes me a templein which He resides, and nothing separates us. Our discourse oftenstarts with my wants and needs,my hopes and dreams or pain and anger,with cries of distress for myself or for others.Still, God responds to my… Read More
The title is inspired by an essay by Annie Dillard called “The Total Eclipse.” Our writing assignment was to take an experience that seemed impossible to put into words and write about it. That’s what Annie Dillard did with her other-wordly experience of a total eclipse. One of her paragraphs (which I quote below) reminded… Read More
In the fall of 2024, after my mother’s death followed by 14 months of at least one illness per month, I was asked if I had “a word” to set the tone for the next year. I laughed, because that’s not a tradition I’ve ever taken part in. But, to my surprise, the word “Jubilee”… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 