I am broken, yet because of God’s love and mercy, Jesus’ sacrifice, and the Holy Spirit who is living in me, I am being transformed.
Bible Doodle: Philippians 2:13
Smaug of My Inner Darkness
This is from my Creative Nonfiction course I am taking through http://www.thehabit.co. Assignment: think of a time in which an insight from a story helped you make sense of some experience or problem? If so, tell that story. What’s wrong with me? I need my husband to hear me, yet hope that he doesn’t. How… Read More
Silent, But Deadly
Depression isn’t a dragonThat overtly threatensAnd awakensVanquishing knightsInside ourselves. Rather,It is a silent enemyThat infiltratesAnd becomes part of the landscape,Assuming more and more prominenceUntil takeoverIs accomplished. To mount an insurrectionWe must developA vigilant networkOf counter-spiesSnooping through the mundane,Sniffing out each plot,Shoring upThe sagging bulwarksOf equanimity. Sorry, I can’t help you with that. I wrote this… Read More
Bible Doodle: Isaiah 60:1
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. Isaiah 60:1
Impervious Joy
Joy is a diamond in the center of my being,a gracious gift that does not erodeeven when it is washed by acidic hateor flooded with the false sweetness of manipulation. Joy is in the presence the Holy Spirit, living in me,Who does not cringe from the heat of the fiery furnaceor the bleak icicles of… Read More
Heavenly Things Are Being Done While We Wait
Every day for the last four days, friends have talked with me about waiting: for medical reports, for more tests, for reader responses to a book just written, for a return phone call, for something to change… And in this all, for an answer to prayer. To “see” God working in a situation. At the… Read More
Bible Doodle: Philippians 2:13
Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God. That energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.Philippians 2:13, The Message
Kathleen S Evenhouse 