by Joanne | May 3, 2018 | Encouragement
Lately my thoughts have brought me to read the story of the prodigal son. Today I am sharing a post from 2014 … The story of the prodigal son. We all have heard it. The son who has taken for granted all that has been given to him. The father who keeps watch...
by Joanne | Sep 22, 2016 | Encouragement
God is Love. Such a simple statement yet the most powerful of all statements. God loves us for ourselves and not for anything we can do or give Him. We cannot cause God to love us more, or less, than He already does. Yet we live in a performance-based culture, causing...
by Joanne | May 21, 2014 | Encouragement
The story of the prodigal son. We all have heard it …. The son who takes for granted all that has been given to him. The father who keeps watch for his lost son to return. The older brother, mad as all get out that he never had a party thrown for him. Hidden in...
by Joanne | Mar 7, 2013 | Encouragement
This afternoon I read the story of the prodigal son. Such a familiar story & yet today it fell fresh on my soul….. Scripture tells us of a father who had two sons. The younger son wanted his inheritance, immediately. For whatever reason, the father gave him...
by Joanne | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sometimes we can know a story so well that we gloss right over that which is before our eyes. I think that has happened at times with the story of the prodigal son found in Luke 15. It is a beautiful story of the love of a father that waits out the wandering ways of...