Punch holes in your fears
Fear hovers like fog.It gathers, hesitates, stays.We read what confirms.See, I am right to be afraid;I have reason to fear. Light dimsPulling up our covers, toour hideout, our cocoon, our tent.Safety suffocates…if not self imposed,then self-perpetuated. Punch holes in what frightens you.Not with fists,but with learning,with truth,with prayer,by conversation with a trusted confidante. Pepper your […]
Finding Your Fit
Finding your fit is like putting latex gloves on in the dark. One way is right. One way is wrong. Stick your hand in. You’ll feel which is which and choose the right. The wrong doesn’t fit.
A Prayer for Our Country
I don’t let anyone tell me what to do! Is that so? I ask God what is right to do. I ask others what they would do. I ask myself what is fair to do. Then I decide what I should do. And I do it. This is my prayer for our country and its […]
Thy Word is…
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
Join Your Life, Already in Progress
“I have so many choices facing me right now, Guiding God…I listen for your voice. I listen with an open heart. I trust that you will guide me to the right choices. In this trusting, I am going to move out in faith and open the doors in front of me… Ever present God, the […]
Kinesthetic Christian: Write, Rest, or Revise?
Dear friends, May I call you that? You, who faithfully (or only occasionally) read what I write here at the Kinesthetic Christian? I regularly struggle with what it means, and what I mean, when I say I am a kinesthetic Christian. It is easier to say what I don’t mean: I don’t mean you have […]
Making Space for Him to do More
How I do love to make myself useful. In fact, that instruction still rings gently in my ears from my mother, frustrated that I had too much time on my hands with nothing to do. “Go make yourself useful,” she’d say good-naturedly. And I would go and be about some other twaddling as a teen […]
Do you hear what I hear?
What do you hear when you listen?
Kids are amazing
Kylie is 11 and likes “My Little Ponies.” She tells me their names and describes who they are and what they like to do. She’s trying to decide which one to buy when they go to the mall today, so she rattles off their names: Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow, Rarity and Pinkie. She has narrowed […]
Deception is never harmless and often lasting
It seems harmless. A phrase posted on a Facebook status. It’s not true, but it’s part of a game. You post something that is nonsensical or hard to believe about yourself and then the comments start rolling in. What? What are you talking about? The trick is, everyone who comments then has to post one […]
