On a warm spring evening I was sitting in my friend’s garden and admiring its beauty, her creativity and hard work! All of a sudden interrupting my musings was her daughter Ava Lu. “Kim, I want to show Continue reading
Ep 2: 5 Things I learned about God from Raising Mychal
Kim speaks at Phoenix Calvary Temple for Mothers Day as her eldest son, Mychal is about to head off to college.
(Recorded at Phoenix Calvary Temple, May 2007)
I’m Camping?!
I’m Camping?!
My husband was offered a job in South Lake Tahoe; the owner was going to be gone for 5 days and in that time wanted the kitchen updated. And of course I could come along and stay with him. I am not a camper, Continue reading
Ep 1 – Peninsula Christian Center Mothers Day 5-12-13
Kim Clements shares from her own life experience as a mother the value of implementing Deuteronomy 11:18-20 in your everyday life of raising children and intentionally leading others through relationships. (Recorded at Peninsula Christian Center of Pacific Grove 5/12/13)
Into the Darkness
I was 7 and in the second grade when I started watching this TV show called Star Trek. I didn’t care about the space ship, although the U.S.S Enterprise is still the gold standard for any and all space vehicles, Continue reading
Standards Raised
It was sneaky, visceral and unprecedented. I had been feeling the rumblings in my spirit for days, I knew something was coming could feel it but was surprised by the human face attached to it and the area Continue reading
Lean Into the Moment
I stepped onto the street that faces the ocean, running shoes laced and ready to take me along the shore line. I stretch a bit to warm muscles that have not been used in this way for 5 months, but long for it and there is Advil waiting…I love advil Continue reading
A Little Tada Moment
It was Gray, lots of it inside and out in my world that very cold February day when my friend Michelle sent me a link, a link to contribute writing to a book that Renee Rongen was creating. A book with the artwork and the words of women, a collaborative effort led by a woman of tremendous humor and wisdom. Continue reading
The Next Step
As American Christians we relish the double portion outcome of a Job like experience. We crave the justification that it brings to a life altering circumstance, it seems to clarify the How’s and Why’s of it all. We often love the beginning and the end of victorious testimonies and like to skip the middle part that includes the process and the time it takes to live in it, that part is often shortened or dismissed in the retelling of a collision-like experience in a life. Continue reading
Where 2 or 3
You could feel in the room that this is a place where the presence of God is cultivated, the aged saints sitting at the end of the table are people who have walked deep paths of faith and served long in the work of the Lord, Lay people who have helped in every arena of the church, who upheld the arms of those serving in the pastoral office and have lived a life of prayer. Continue reading
Target White Chocolate and Mocha
I needed contact paper for the kitchen shelves in the house we are care-taking and I was already on Hwy 50 so I decided to take the Zinfandel exit and pulled into the Target that I had shopped for years and if I am being truthful I wanted a White Chocolate Mocha (non-fat) and a Ginger Snap cookie from La Bou. Continue reading
Heroes and Villians
There are always multiple versions of a true story and who you are telling it to decides which version you will tell, especially when you are a Christian leader because you are always mindful of your responsibility to do no harm. It is like with your children, when you have to talk about difficult things you give age appropriate information, what they can handle in a way they can handle it. Continue reading
Words
WORDS, they come almost daily in phone calls, text messages, email and FB posts.
The frequency is in itself comforting but it is the “daily manna”
that they contain that elevates the mind and feeds the spirit. Continue reading
Bitter and Sweet
On Sunday morning we leave this place forever.
2011 Has been a year of tremendous Joy because it included Mychal’s college graduation and Marriage. Incredible milestones in the life of a family and a true sense of satisfaction for a parent to see your Son chase dreams and catch them.
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Transitions, Gratitude and Christmas
We faced a difficult and dark fall season that culminated in our resigning from our church. Someday in a novel I will write the details with perspective and objectivity that time provides but suffice it to say we have lived a Frank Peretti Novel. Continue reading