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? “I was just diagnosed with cancer. This is not my idea of a loving God.” “What am I really doing for… Read More
My father died slowly—nine excruciating months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. When well-meaning friends tried to comfort me with “it is God’s will,” it made me angry. Surely God did not intend such torture for my father or my family. We had prayed for healing and had tried for a cure with everything… Read More
I wrote this poem in 1973. My father had a brain tumor of the most aggressive kind, and he hung on to life for nine months, at least his body did. As time progressed, the tumor and corresponding treatment blocked the essence of my father from making it out of the barriers that jailed him… Read More
The sun is shining but how can I reflect its rays when storm clouds of fear and pain block their passage to my soul. My bed is floating on a flood of nightly tears; my gut writhes and clenches as I cry out to you for mercy and help. How long, Oh Lord, how much… Read More
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” NOT TRUE! Researchers have shown that the same area of the brain lights up—the interior cingulate gyrus—when you experience hurtful words as it does when you experience physical pain. Words are real—they enter your brain as electro-magnetic forces; they become thoughts. Every… Read More
Released in the summer of 2013, “Redemption” stars Jason Statham as a man battling his own violent tendencies. He wants desperately to be a “good man,” and thinks he can do it by doing enough good deeds to balance his badness—a killer with a conscience. The nun who helps him wants to earn her own… Read More
David Crowder turns the meaning of eclipse on its head in his song “How He Loves.” “…When all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great Your affections are for me…” God’s love is the master eclipse— its light the… Read More
