by Joanne | May 24, 2024 | Encouragement
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Nothing. Upon seeing the word prompt, the memory comes flooding to mind. I cannot even count the number of times I sat in church and...
by Joanne | May 20, 2024 | Encouragement
There are days in life we hear of situations which seem to be hopeless. We may not know that this is necessarily the truth. Yet due to appearances we believe it may just very well be true. The disciples are walking on the road to the village of Emmaus. As they walk,...
by Joanne | May 17, 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 … Finally. Finally can be used to conclude a statement or action. It can be used to indicate the last thing to be said or done. Paul...
by Joanne | May 13, 2024 | Encouragement
Being a person who is unable to watch anything tense or scary, when alone at night I tend to flip to HGTV and watch a few shows. The ending is always good: Perspective buyers always buy their dream home in thirty minutes. Seriously, it took us over a year when looking...
by Joanne | Apr 29, 2024 | Encouragement
We find in Scripture the story of the pool of Bethesda. The sick would come, sit there, and wait for the waters to stir. The one who was able to get in the waters would receive healing from whatever was ailing them. An ill man was there one day. Jesus knew from his...
by Joanne | Apr 22, 2024 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
She called this past week. The dearest of friends. Over thirty years of friendship. The mere sound of her voice on the other side of the phone moved me to tears, and joy, and laughter, all at the same time. We don’t talk weekly, at times a month or two can pass before...
