“Ready for a surprise? You blink twenty-five times every minute. Each blink takes one-fifth of a second. So if you take a ten-hour automobile trip, averaging forty miles per hour, you’ll drive thirty-three miles with your eyes closed!” (Chuck Swindoll, Insight for Living, http://www.insight.org) This is the first paragraph of a July letter from Pastor… Read More
Cleaning out the fridge
After listening to me whine about having to clean out the fridge–there were fuzzy things growing in containers in the back–a coworker told me a way that she avoided that job altogether. Every evening as she does the supper dishes, she goes through one shelf in her refrigerator, checking the viability of the leftovers and… Read More
Senior coffee
It happened earlier this month in Georgia. I was given a “senior coffee” without requesting it. I didn’t realize it until I was sitting at the table eating and glanced at the ticket. My husband laughed and said, “Saved us some change.” My reaction was totally different. I spent a few extra minutes in the… Read More
Philippians 2:12-13 According to His purpose
My job is to open my heart to the cleansing and healing power of God, to invite his Holy Spirit to shine its light into all the dark spots. When I do this, He works in me so that my life, my energy, my fruits are all according to his purpose and design. … Read More
Pulverizing brick walls
I am a child of God, baptized with the Holy Spirit. He lives inside me, yet I still often try to box Him in. I don’t listen to His quiet voice or open the eyes of my heart to hear/see the walls that I construct to block His light. Unless I see through Holy Spirit… 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
Kathleen S Evenhouse 