Entries by Katy Kinard

PROFOUND TRUTHS FROM PROVERBS

When I was in college, I used to post funny quotes, printed out forwards and other themes on the inside of the bathroom stalls in our dorm.  Sometimes, I’d type out more serious, introspective ones, like this one… verses I found reading through Proverbs that I thought were unique: *Happy is the one who is […]

OUR LITTLE FRUIT BAT

My roommate and I got a puppy! It’s my first pet outside of family life growing up. Her name is Lula (full name: Lula Belle May Scooter) — that, or one of the 10 different nicknames based on whatever animal we think she looks like at the moment. She’s a Yorkie Pomeranian, 4 months old, and […]

TEXAS, THE COUNTRY (HOW THE TOUR WENT)

Touring in Texas is absolutely…cool. Elizabeth and I have taken what I like to call a “horseshoe route” of Texas… from Lubbock (northwest) to Del Rio (southwest), the San Antonio area (south), near Austin (central), Beaumont (southeast), up through Tyler (northeast) and north of Dallas. I feel like we’ve been to ritzy exotic places—sometimes looking […]

WHAT IF I’M NOT ____ MATERIAL?

(What if I’m just God’s material?) … “Just God’s material.”  Only someone who the King of the Universe has formed and given breath for the sole purpose that it pleased Him to have my personality, talents and “who I am” on the earth, if only for a short time.  “Just God’s”  …just His. I don’t […]

STILL SEEING

I don’t know why it surprises me sometimes… There are months I stare at a blank spiritual canvas, wondering where the colors are, and if they still exist to be found…and then I find them where they always were, before I hid them. Sometimes I put the brushes away so the colors can’t be painted. […]

IF GOD HAD JUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN…

Wow, here’s a blog I meant to post more than a year ago. This is actually an e-mail I wrote a friend who was going through a hard time, and I think I actually encouraged myself in the process…because it’s something I have struggled with over the years.  My email to her: Hey, I was […]

CONSIDER THE SPARROWS

So 3 weeks ago was the coolest drive home from work ever.  I work overnight shifts, so I’m used to getting off work before the sun comes up. But this particular day, I had to be at work late, and I left with the sunrise.  As I drove home, I noticed something that amazed me. […]

JOY, NOT HAPPINESS

You know, I used to get so sad over change, wishing happy times would always stay happy. But sometimes my happy times aren’t actually joyful, just a series of shallow happy events that I try to hang on to, piece together and pretend the quilted pieces are making up a good life. I think God […]

CONTRADICTIONS

So I have these thoughts tonight that are all very contradicting, but that’s usually how my thoughts go. A background of sorts… I grew up mostly fundamental Baptist (though my parents were never that strict…we were kinda “the sinners of the church,” in a way). < random tangent (that has a point): I love spiritually […]

I LOVE NASHVILLE

So I was driving to work and veering all over the road, simply because the sky looked particularly awesome and I was staring at it. It was changing so fast…the clouds were surrounding the moon, but they were tiny symmetrical little puffs, and it looked like a rainbow was circling the moon between the clouds. […]