by Kayla Norris | Jul 31, 2016 | Loving Jesus, YWAM DTS
I hear the espresso machine squealing, but I turn the other way. You know those awkward few moments in time, after the pastor has dismissed you and the worship leader has strummed his last chord? You scan the crowd for faces you recognise, but the only ones you...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 20, 2016 | Loving Jesus
I’m a daydreamer. I mean, aren’t we all? There’s that moment, split second or five minutes, while you’re waiting for someone to get to the car or for the line to disappear at the supermarket, and there you dream. You hope. You get excited for...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 2, 2016 | Loving Jesus
On a calm Wednesday afternoon, tucked under some fluffy blankets (it’s winter here in New Zealand), I chatted to one of my best friends, Cori. As per usual, she asked me about my writing- not because she is a writer, but mainly because she cares about me like...
by Kayla Norris | May 24, 2016 | Loving Jesus
What’s the best that could happen? It’s a question I had forgotten how to ask. Heavy disappointments clung closely, like a backpack I couldn’t seem to take off. The worst had happened. I’d opened up my heart to hope, and everything crumbled...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 28, 2016 | Loving Jesus
What’s the greatest thing in the world? In the midst of 1941, WWII England, C.S. Lewis gave a sermon saying nineteen out of twenty good men would answer that the highest virtue in the world was “unselfishness”. Contrasted, he explained, if you had...
by Kayla Norris | Mar 22, 2016 | Loving Jesus, The Creative Heart
“Part of every misery, so to speak, is the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living in...
