Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
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
God, why send me into the wilderness?It’s hard, forbidding, scary, hot,empty of anything life-giving. Why did I send Moses, the Israelites, John the Baptist, and My own Son Jesus?What was in the wilderness? Yes, but why me, God?I really don’t like it here. “Where do you focus on Me?”“Where do you strain to hear My… Read More
As many of you have noticed, I’ve been dealing with health issues. Which means, I am also dealing with spiritual issues. A friend of mine, poet John Thompson, call this a cathartic exercise in poetry, and that hits the nail on the head. I am a verbal processor, it’s how I work through things, how… Read More
Thank you, God, for the truth of your son’s birth.
Harvest time is wrapping up in Iowa. We’ve been watching the corn and beans grow since they were planted in the spring. I have loved a summer of driving through the countryside and seeing the “amber waves of grain.” Okay, so my husband explains that this phrase, “amber waves of grain,” from the song “My… Read More
We recently attended a brother’s retirement party–he retired from planting churches. We took a picture of some of the relatives who attended, and it reminded me of this verse: I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 