Dr. Kathleen B. Oden is an author, missionary, and Bible teacher. She has been the Administrator of God’s House of Refuge Church & School of Evangelism, for 25 years. Dr. Oden attained a Doctorate degree in Christian Theology in 2000. After a bad fall in 2014, she realized that she had to start eating healthy, in order to fully recover. She became a Certified Health Minister and a Certified Essential Oil Coach. She loves ministering to people and God gave her a health ministry called, Create AnewU Health Ministry. Her health ministry has opened the door for her to share what the WORD OF GOD has to say about eating healthy. Dr. Oden has published over 20 books through Amazon.com and several of them are about health and wellness. https://createanewuhealthministry.com
The Child In Me
By Dr. Kathleen B. Oden Think back… what did you enjoy doing as a child before ‘life happened’? Some of my favorite pastime hobbies were reading, writing, drawing, and painting abstract pictures. After life happened, it was many, many years later when my daughter had completed college, joined the peace corps, and went to Africa, that I remembered. She left her car with me and there were several canvas paintings in the trunk that she had drawn and painted. It was in that brief moment, my mind was transported back to my younger self. WOW! What happened? I was just 19 a minute ago!
And He said in Matthew 18:3, “And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (KJV) As adults, we are so busy with life that we sometimes forget that we are still little children in the eyes of God. Have we forgotten that we are CHILDREN of God? Several weeks ago, my pastor’s 10-year-old grandson came for a visit. He was bored because he did not have anyone to play with him. We watched cartoons, discussed them, laughed out loud, and just had a good time. When was the last time you spent some quality time with a child?
One of the things I love about Jesus is that nothing we learn to do is wasted. And many of us have an abundance of gifts that are on hold, waiting inside It is our responsibility to pay it forward to the next of us, for such a time to be birthed forth. generation. How will they remember us if we do In Bible college, we learned how to draw maps of not take the time to pass on our knowledge to the Holy Land in Israel. At the time, my thought them, socialize with them, acknowledge them and was, “this is totally useless.” However, many, many enjoy them while we can? We need to look in the years later, the Lord put me in charge of the chil- mirror and ask ourselves what happened to the dren’s church school. Teaching them how to draw child in us? and color maps of the Holy Land in Israel was so enjoyable for them and for me. Who knew! Jesus knew!
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