Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
In the balcony of the Chicago Convention Center: pencil poised,22-year-old eyes focused on an empty screen, I wait for enlightenment.Puzzled, I notice others scribbling notes, and squint at the speaker.Is he, could he, be writing words that I can’t see? The next day, I made an appointment with an optometrist. How much had I missed… Read More
I was 22 years old before I figured out that I couldn’t see what other people could see. I was in the balcony in a large conference hall, waiting for the speaker to write on the overhead so I could take notes. (Yes, it was an overhead because that’s what we used 50 years ago.)… Read More
We all know people who insist that “it’s my way, or the highway!” Some believe that it’s more important to be right than to get along or that our way of practicing our faith is much better than anything you could possibly think of. Or we think of ourselves better than others because they don’t… Read More
Last week I was in Sequoia National Park in central California. It’s spring, and there are so many colors of green around every corner and flowers… Our driver finally quit asking and just stopped regularly at turnouts to let us take pictures. And the smell—not too much pine yet, but crisp, fresh, earthy, and so full of… Read More
When I open up my heart to God, when I am filled with the Holy Spirit, when I am living a new life in him, I also receive a vision correction. I see the same things, but somehow they don’t look the same any more. I have a whole new perspective. Colossians 3:1-2 (New… Read More
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