Finishing School
Kat Silverglate
Finishing School
By Kat Silverglate © 2025 John Ortberg’s writings about his mentor Dallas Willard and the impact his guidance had on his spiritual formation left more than a tinge of holy jealousy in my heart. Who wouldn’t want access to a…
Threshold
Threshold
By Kat Silverglate © 2025 “It’s a realtor trick,” she said. “Cleaning the thresholds on all the entry and exit doors of your house. Those thresholds trap the residue of life. Pet hair. Mud. The stuff that sticks to the…
Guidance: The Pilgrim’s Power
Guidance: The Pilgrim’s Power
By Kat Silverglate © 2025 He had this thick shock of snow-white hair and he spoke with this booming voice. When his vocal cords cracked the hum of the students chatting and shuffling papers, authority absolutely filled every inch of…
The Story I Want My Life to Tell
The Story I Want My Life to Tell
By Kat Silverglate © 2025 Chocolate. Our first introduction involved chocolate, her favorite food on the planet. She and her husband, both lawyers, attended a continuing legal education seminar I gave in the 90’s. Hard to remember the year now.…
Find Me
Find Me
By Kat Silverglate © 2025 “I’d never dialed 911 in my life. I figured it was reserved for plane crashes and car wrecks. But there I was, deep in the woods of North Carolina. I couldn’t find my way out…
Name Alert
Name Alert
By Kat Silverglate © 2025 I read her book — Single-Handedly Blessed – the story of how God blessed her with a child in her singleness. We “met” briefly on a business call and connected on Facebook the way people…
Not Crushed Not Abandoned
Not Crushed Not Abandoned
By Kat Silverglate © 2025 I missed more than a few steps in how I carried her. Not because I didn’t care. More because I didn’t know how to carry. The frame of reference for this kind of crushing hadn’t…
You Are My Mother
