Author name: Karen

I, Karen, am still thinking about the death of loved ones, Christ’s union with me, and our separation.  I see this ebb and flow of separation and reunion that runs through a Christian’s life and is entered into through deaths.  Spiritual separation through death because of Adam’s sin; spiritual reunion because of Christ’s death on […]

I, Karen, have had the honor of knowing a couple who have truly experienced “the two shall become one (Matt. 19:5)” and who could not imagine anything except being together “until death do us part.” They really were in union with each other.  When one of them was dying, the surviving spouse mentioned how strange

Matthew 6:19-21 NASB “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there

Psalms 139:7-12 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

“…if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have (koinonia) fellowship with one another…” (1 John 1:7) Being in Christ also means being in fellowship with His body. Koinonia is the Greek word God chooses to describe fellowship.  It also means communication, partnership and communion.  It comes from koinonos