by Kathryn Hausmanis | May 18, 2020 | Encouragement, Inspiration, Prayer
My palms burned as I held the tuning peg on my cello in a death grip, tightening it millimetre by stubborn millimetre. Would it stay put? Cautiously picking at the string, I heard a perfectly pitched “A” ring out. The moment I released the peg, though, it immediately...
by Kathryn Hausmanis | Mar 18, 2020 | Encouragement, Hope
“I’m too fat; I’m too tall. I sing off-key and I don’t fit at all.” So runs a rhyme I made up as a seven-year-old with a crippling case of self-doubt. For several years, I chanted this merciless mantra under my breath whenever I did something wrong, couldn’t find...
by Kathryn Hausmanis | Mar 16, 2020 | Love Unconditionally, Repentance, Salvation
I would like to begin with a story. Many years ago, I taught in Campbell River. Enrolling students from other countries was just getting started and our school had several Koreans in attendance. We did not have separate English Language Learning...
by Kathryn Hausmanis | Jan 31, 2020 | Children, Parenting
Almost everyone loves a baby. Welcoming several into our church family through recent dedications has been inspiring. We readily stand as a church family and pledge ourselves to pray and to support the parents as they do the hard work. Then the teen years arrive and...
by Kathryn Hausmanis | Jan 23, 2020 | Inspiration, Life Issues
Have you had moments where you felt a tinge of loneliness lately? There didn’t seem anyone available to share in your joy, your challenge, your desire, your hope? The space around you seemed a little too empty? Vancouver continues to be considered one of the loneliest...
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