Kim Denyes

For several decades, I tried to make sourdough starter without the intended success.  A few weeks ago, yet another couple of failed attempts went in the trash bin.  Turns out…

How are your spirits?  Funny question.  But a fitting one for our times.  How are your spirits?     Maybe your life has become unfamiliar to you.  And your spirits?  Well,…

Jesus taught in parables – a story with layered messages, a story that attempts to reveal contradictions as well as weaken the status quo.[1]  Perhaps one of his main messages…

In early 1931, as the Great Depression was moving into the lives of our ancestors, George and Olive Denyes, my grandparents, adopted a six-month old who would become my father. …

Prayer is a popular theme right now.  People needing prayer, people encouraging prayer, people calling us to pray.  I know prayer may change things, and I also know that prayer…

From the movie, Two Popes, Pope Francis says this, and it is a direct quote from his book The Name of God is Mercy. “For some time, I have been…

If your prayer life is moving you outside of your comfort zone, it is likely you are being invited into spiritual maturity and into a deeper love.[1]  Prayer is more…

Lately, I find myself drawn to self-compassion and thereby compassion.  Mainly because there is a lack of it in myself, my friends, and folks I meet.  Perhaps self-compassion sounds a…

We learn rather early in our lives that words deeply wound humans.  Words said in anger or haste can crumble a heart, a spirit, a life.  Years ago, an angry…

A recent study of the word “heart” in the Old Testament revealed God’s view of you is more of an interior perspective than an outer one.  When selecting the first…