by Joanne | Mar 20, 2020 | Encouragement
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Tomorrow. These days we are now experiencing are a bit unsettling if we are honest. Words like ‘unprecedented’ and...
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 | Mar 18, 2020 | Encouragement
In recent days, I have had several conversations with different people and the subject at hand was “fearâ€. We often use other words to describe our feelings – like worry, concerns, anxiety – in an effort to avoid the use of the word “fearâ€. Our fears, if...
by Joanne | Mar 17, 2020 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
We entered the fourth week of God’s Prevailing Purpose with reading Genesis 42:1-13. Here we find the band of brothers coming to Egypt to see if they can buy some grains so they can all survive the famine. In that split second when they bow before Joseph, Joseph...
by Joanne | Mar 16, 2020 | Encouragement
The past week has been a time of disappointments, delays, and setbacks for so many. As I have sat and thought about the different situations, the challenges that lay before and the days ahead, I realize this – I have no answer. No solution. No remedy. Nothing. All...