by Kayla Norris | Aug 27, 2017 | Loving Jesus, YWAM DTS
I scalded the back of my left hand the other day. Rather than pouring a mug’s worth of boiling water into the coffee plunger, I splattered it all over the counter and my skin. To say it hurt was an understatement, yet there were no blisters or scabs, no causes for...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 20, 2017 | Loving Jesus, Missionary Kids
It was scripted long ago: Surely I am coming soon. Yet most of my life I’ve had a detached view on that statement, while feeling guilty that I really should feel more when I hear it. End times, Revelation, the whole Bible is lunging toward the second coming of Jesus....
by Kayla Norris | Apr 2, 2017 | Community, Loving Jesus
One day that night will just become YWAM Bethlehem myth. Even now, it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction, lies from truth. Did one of our staff members really slap our leader with a slice of pepperoni pizza? There are only a few eyewitnesses who can retell the...
by Kayla Norris | Jan 13, 2017 | Loving Jesus
“Why are you weeping?” My back is towards the man that is asking the question, and if my hands weren’t full of burial spices and snotty tissues, well, I could have slapped him. Sure, angels just asked me that and disappeared– but surely a human should know what’s...
by Kayla Norris | Dec 19, 2016 | Loving Jesus
I had a Ford Focus full of people, and pulled around the corner far too fast. I knew that bend well– I travelled from Welcome Bay to Te Puke every day for a few weeks during university for a school placement. But I’d never driven it myself. Before you envision...
by Kayla Norris | Aug 30, 2016 | High School, Loving Jesus, Relationships, The Creative Heart, University, YWAM DTS
I choked back on sobs, as the dark blue 1952 edition of Pride and Prejudice curled back instantly into the flames, along with at least seven other romance novels. I couldn’t see through the tears, as my rom-coms and 19th century dramas melted into glowing coals. Deep,...
