by Joanne | Mar 19, 2020 | Encouragement, Prayer
It was a morning like many other mornings except this one was the most different from any other morning yet experienced in my life. Pulling into the parking lot, I prepared to enter. Putting disposable rubber gloves on, I pulled clorox wipes from the dispenser to wipe...
by Joanne | Feb 28, 2020 | Encouragement, Prayer, Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Before. Psalm 139 is most often quoted to remind us of the preciousness of life in the womb. Yet there is a verse even before the oft quoted...
by Joanne | Feb 16, 2020 | Prayer, Uncategorized
“We had hoped he was the Messiah who had come to rescue Israel. This all happened three days ago.” (Luke 24:21, NLT) “The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer … … all the time God is at work in our everyday...
by Joanne | Jan 29, 2020 | Encouragement, Prayer
Jonah is probably most commonly known for his adventures with the whale. But hidden within this short book of the Bible (just four chapters long), we find Jonah’s prayers to God. “Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish. He said,...
by Joanne | Jan 21, 2020 | Prayer, Uncategorized
My word for this year, Savor, continues to unfold before me in the most unusual of ways, speaking to my soul the very words it needs. It is at our tables our bodies find nourishment as we sit and partake of our meals; and it is at His table our souls find the morsels...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2020 | Prayer, Uncategorized
The mere mention of the Book of Job is enough to send one running. The book reminds us of loss and devastation and painful suffering. After losing everything but his wife, whose only advice was to “Curse God and die.” (see Job 2:9), Job still remained faithful to...
