Kate Kleinsasser

I’m sitting with the lingering smells of a butter pound cake wafting through the house on this drizzly Saturday. The recliner I’m sitting on frequently loses it’s balance and teeters backwards and just a few days ago I caught Eric on camera as he flew backwards with feet in the air =). I’m quite well… Read more

I have a great Wednesday afternoon announcement for you. Grab your coffee, sit somewhere pleasant, and let the truth of these words run into every desert place in your soul and take root as you feel the rain of His abundance. You don’t have to stay in spiritual survival. He is too good for that.… Read more

(This is a guest post by a dear friend who chose to stay anonymous. I was so encouraged by her clear words and testimony. Be blessed!) I’m an English teacher, which means that well-crafted words capture my soul. Some of the most beautiful words I’ve found have been in liturgies—written prayers passed down through the… Read more

Many of us have heard the quote “The church is God’s plan A, there is no plan B!” For many years I knew the church was God’s design but since my church experience made no theological sense to me, I resorted to my own “plan B” of loving and serving people in the way God… Read more

The dark clouds and sleeting rain of the new year always bring some sad and foreboding feelings for me. It was January 20th on one of the those dark, Northern January days when tragedy hit my family and left us reeling in the wake of a reality we could hardly comprehend; living without our Peter.… Read more

It’s a slow day of rest, and I am soaking in peace right to my bones. We found a slightly leaning pine tree and strung it with lights our kind landlady gave us. Yesterday I slowly dried thin sliced oranges and Rafael and I simmered some pine, cranberries, and orange to get our senses aligned… Read more

It’s a balmy day with the sunshine peering through partially naked trees in the forest. I can still look up on my morning run and catch spots of golden coloured leaves but most of the woods stands bare, slowly swaying in the crisp air of November. Those maples and poplars comfort me standing so brave… Read more

I’m sitting here as I do every morning, musing about life as the early sun dances in my back camper window. I’ve had my cappuccino and it’s given me the energy to think harder about grace and safety, judgements and superficiality, and how all of these are interrelated. It seems to me that grace has… Read more

For many years I was afraid of “seeking an experience” from God. I wanted to be rooted in obedience, free from sin, and fully sanctified. I believed in the supernatural but thought it must be more for those that don’t know God to compel them to believe in Him. Besides that, bizarre renditions of faith… Read more

We’ve all sat in zealous mission sermons that spur us to “Go and make disciples,” but if you’re like me disciple-making was a pretty vague term that somehow haphazardly happened if we followed Jesus close enough and taught bible lessons with an organised curriculum. I’m married to a very diligent evangelist who loves to tear… Read more