Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 3:6
Bible Doodle: Face to Face Time
Today, It Happened Again
Today, it happened again.I had my work schedule planned:Answer emails, edit a resume, and write next’s week Monday blog—All of this before my early-afternoon online meeting.But, a friend asks, “May I interrupt you?”And I reply, “Please do.” Do I mean it? Of course, I do.In my thinking,People come before tasks, before things.My deadlines are self-made… Read More
Doodle the Bible: Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”Matthew 22:36-40,… Read More
Bigger on the Inside
Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom. Psalm 90:12 (NLT) I want to live my life in such a way that I reflect the infinite presence of God in my heart. I want to be bigger on the inside—the Holy Spirit pouring in more and more as… Read More
More Than a Forward
I received a message–a forward, really–from a friend who had received it from his brother, who had gotten it from a “Thought for a Day” post. And the funny thing is, I was delighted that this friend had chosen to send it to me. Why? Because something about these words reminded him of me. In… Read More
Bible Doodle: (Imperfect People)
Excuses: I don’t have my act together. I keep making mistakes. I’m not spiritual enough. We have the Word and the Spirit. It’s “both and,” not “either or.” That’s why we don’t have to depend on our imperfect selves in our day-to-day living or sink under the storms that are wreaking havoc. We’re imperfect, but… Read More
When I smile in Smokey Row…
I sit or stand at a round bar-style table by the front window in Smokey Row coffee shop. Unless I’m in deep-focus mode, with headsets on and intent on my work, I glance up and smile at everyone who walks in. I’ll step over and hold the door for moms with strollers and grandpas with… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 