What is a Kinesthetic Christian, please?

How do you describe who you are?

Where you came from? where you live? where you work? who’s in your family? … okay. But who you are forces you to assess the why and the where and the how, to dig deeper into makes you tick and what gives you energy. But who? That makes you boil down your meaning and connection with the world.

I am a kinesthetic Christian. What’s that? I can start by defining the words:

• Kinesthetics learn best by moving and touching and applying their senses.
• Christians do their best when they follow Christ.

But put the two together and it still raises some questions. How can you touch Christ? How can moving help you experience God? Here’s what I know: When I move God makes more sense to me.

Instead, it’s in my moving through my day — especially in the things I do physically — where God captures my attention. It’s sort of an on-going conversation.

I lift the weight. God says, “Hey Wendy, this is just like…”

I climb the stairs. God says, “Hey Wendy, feel that…”

I scrub the floor. God says, “Hey Wendy, did you know…”

I walk the dog. God says, “Hey Wendy, remember when…”

I walk lazily on the treadmill listening to an audio book through head phones when God seems to say, “Hey Wendy, I’m trying to get your attention here!”

I plunk out the air buds and suddenly my brain is flooded with solutions to every project. I pause the treadmill and run to get my notebook. Then, I jump back on and hit START, with pen in hand and mind at the ready.

What is a Kinesthetic Christian? It’s how I’m made. Just the ordinary me, doing what I do. Lifting, climbing, scrubbing, walking, writing, reading… God fills the space between us and we are connected in a new way.

It seems the natural way of things. Not only do we meet God in the worship space, but God meets us in our daily space. On our home turf, so to speak. Of course, God knows where we like to hang out and what we like to do. The Divine Designer made us to do and be just that.

So “who am I” …

I am a Kinesthetic Christian. I read. I write. I pray. I play. I worship. I relate to my world kinesthetically. It’s the only path I know to follow the Lord of my life.