What does prayer look like? There is not just one way to pray, but as you live, you pray. Like Tim Tebow: down on one knee with head bowed. In a closet, alone with God. In a group without saying a word. Lying prone. Driving your car with your eyes wide open. Crying. Laughing. Angry.… Read More
Changing habitual motion
When you were a child you learned how to walk, talk, brush your hair, put on a shirt—how to do all of the things that you take for granted today. If you were tie your shoelaces right now, would you have to think about it? Or would your fingers move as though they had been… Read More
Colossians 4:1 Just and Fair
“What goes around comes around.” “Spend a minute in their shoes.” “You get what you pay for. ” “You made your bed, now lay in it.” “Do unto others as you would have done to you.” “The sins of the father are visited upon the son.” You are not the ultimate authority–our Lord and… Read More
Am I sorry for me or for what I’ve done to another?
Remorse is when we are only sorry that we failed. Repentance is when we are in pain because we have hurt God or another person—for that person’s sake and for God’s not for ourselves. It focuses attention on the wounded one. If we are hurting for our own sake because we have failed, that is… Read More
Be the sheep–give up control!
I have not engaged in witchcraft, but I have tried to manipulate God through my prayers. For many years I tried a variety of prayer formats to get what I wanted–what I had decided I had a right to and God should give to me. I bargained, I promised, I followed formulas … I wanted… Read More
Colossians 3:22-25 God has no favorites who can get by with shirking
God’s creation has a number of rules that apply throughout everything. One of them is: “What you sow, that is what you will reap.” If we plant tomato seeds, we will reap tomatoes, not turnips. If we plant discontent, we will experience discontent. If we ingest junk food, our bodies will respond in kind. If… Read More
Colossians 3:18-19 Go all out in love
Submission is not something we in America do well. I can’t speak for those in other countries, because I don’t have enough experience in and of your cultures. But individual rights and privileges–something I believe in and support–can lead us to think only of ourselves and what we deserve and have rights to. Individualistic thinking–what’s… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 