by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 27, 2011 | book review
Young people are abandoning the church, right?Christians have the same divorce rate as unbelievers, right?Prayer, Bible reading, and evangelism are decreasing, right?If you agreed, you might be encouraged to find that the opposite is actually true. There’s an...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 24, 2011 | holiness, pleasure
It’s been interesting to continue thinking about pleasure. As a recovering perfectionist, I have trouble with not making things “all or nothing.” Enjoying pleasure seems dangerous because won’t that mean I’ll go to the extremes?I remember...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 21, 2011 | God's heart, holiness, pleasure
We housed some new friends this past weekend. After they left on Sunday, I went into the bathroom they used to gather their towels for washing. I was surprised to see that they had only used one set. One set? The other set was hung just the same as before. Why did...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 16, 2011 | parenting
Thirty-five years ago last night, my father died at age 50 of a sudden heart attack. Within seconds he was gone and the paramedics were unable to bring him back.Because it’s been so long, it’s strange to me to think that I felt so weepy this morning...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 11, 2011 | holiness, perfectionism
As I thought more about growth being like a spiral (see yesterday’s post), I thought of how the earth orbits the sun. In that orbit, every year between August 9 and 13 when the Earth passes through the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle comet, we see the Perseid meteor...
