by Joanne | Aug 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Five. Five is such a small number. We can count to five on one hand as it will not take much to get there. Five brings to mind the story of Jesus sitting on a...
by Joanne | Jul 31, 2019 | Devoted Living
One simple Psalm has been stuck in my thoughts for days. It is but three verses and it has drawn me back to read its words over and over. “Behold, bless the Lord, All you servants of the Lord, Who by night stand in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands in...
by Joanne | Jul 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
We continued another week with Settle My Soul. This devotional has been unsettling my ways while it settles my soul. ~*~*~ Paul was traveling and preaching. There was nothing wrong with Paul’s desire to preach, but it was not in God’s timing. In Acts...
by Joanne | Jul 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
The notes in the margin of my well read book tell me I have read it at least three times now. Yet the words fell on my heart as if I had never seen them before: “Be thou more calm of spirit, and gird thyself for greater endurance.†(from The Imitation of Christ by...
by Joanne | Jul 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45, NLT) “One of the most indelible abilities of Jesus was to stay on target. His life never got off track … He kept his...
