by Kayla Norris | Dec 18, 2021 | Kids & Teaching, Loving Jesus, The Creative Heart
Some days I don’t even put out the paint. The kids in my classroom range from the stick-everything-in-their-mouth stage, to full conversations about dinosaur underwear (in other words, 1.5-3ish years old). But whatever stage they’re in, paint always makes a...
by Kayla Norris | Jul 8, 2021 | The Creative Heart
It was a sleepy little garden in a corner of Oxford, England. No showy signs. No gift shops. Just crooked lines of old gravestones, with pale blue forget-me-nots dotted about. The only reason I knew we were in the right place was an on-the-run Google search and a...
by Kayla Norris | Dec 28, 2020 | The Creative Heart
I never used to read. Well, I did in elementary school. Like crazy. But then high school hit. Being a nerd was helpful for my grades, but it didn’t help my social life. I mean, I still loved reading. I was a writer. A musician listens to albums, a filmmaker watches...
by Kayla Norris | Jul 31, 2020 | The Creative Heart
There’s a downside to having a job you love. I typed those words two months ago, not knowing how quickly things would change. And it wasn’t just because of COVID-19. Things changed because there is an inconvenient perk to having a job you love. For two years, I...
by Kayla Norris | May 24, 2020 | The Creative Heart
There’s a downside to having a job you love. Here in New Zealand, I manage, edit, and write for the blog at YWAM Furnace—sharing testimonies and tips from the mission field. I’m passionate about storytelling and I could spend hours staring at one blog post (or even...
by Kayla Norris | May 27, 2019 | Loving Jesus, The Creative Heart
When you stand close to a painting, so close that your nose touches the canvas, you’ll just see haphazard splatters and a stray streaks of colour. Nothing looks very much on purpose, the closer you get. Spots and lines, dabs and dots. That’s it. Or, your jaw could...
