by Joanne | Aug 12, 2024 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
When you go on vacation as a family, finding quiet space or time can be a challenge. There always seems to be conversation surrounding you, or a TV on in the common spaces. Such was the scenario recently. And then we came home. The quiet was welcomed as I created...
by Joanne | Jul 16, 2024 | Encouragement
Habakkuk. A small three chapter book tucked away in the midst of the Old Testament. Habakkuk could have been alive today, in our country, and asking those same questions pertinent to the days in which we live. He saw the wickedness and injustices all around him. He...
by Joanne | Jul 1, 2024 | Encouragement, Prayer
We pray because we must. That is it in a nutshell. Life is hard with its ups and downs. It is unpredictable, shifting, changing, unknown, uncertain. We pray because there is One who is greater than life, does not shift, is unchanging, knows all things, and is utterly...
by Joanne | Jun 28, 2024 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Same. Earlier this morning, this sentence stood out from my devotional reading: “…we are gloriously uncertain of the next...
by Joanne | Jun 25, 2024 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
I still remember the first time I heard a sermon on The Valley of Dry Bones. Funny how a sermon can stick with us even after thirty five years or more. The bones were scattered everywhere. The scene, which spread before the prophet’s eyes, seemed hopeless and...
by Joanne | Jun 18, 2024 | Encouragement
Psalm 23 is a most well known and beloved psalm by so many. Sometimes it is good for us to slow down and take the chapter in slowly, absorbing the words and letting them sink deeper into our souls. That was exactly what I did one morning last week when both Psalm 23...
