by Joanne | May 12, 2023 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Deliberate. Deliberate >>> “carefully weighed or considered; intentional” (from dictionary.com). These days in...
by Joanne | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Represent. Looking the word up in the dictionary brings some interesting definitions: “to serve to express as a symbol; to...
by Joanne | Jan 21, 2021 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized
For the last year the world has seemed to be out of control. Life has changed swiftly and in ways no one could have anticipated. Every day our souls are bombarded with news, press conferences, and opinions filling our hearts and minds with overwhelming emotions. Often...
by Joanne | Sep 19, 2019 | Book Reviews
We were raised to be “nice” and we raise our children to be the same. But what if we are wrong in thinking we are to be nice? In her latest book, Nice: Why We Love To Be Liked And How God Calls Us To More, Sharon Hodde Miller, introduces this premise:...
by Joanne | Aug 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22-23, NLT) “In the third century, St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus:...
