by Joanne | May 22, 2019 | Encouragement
Some days can be hard. Disappointments and setbacks get dumped at our door when no delivery was expected. Or perhaps it was a different delivery we were waiting on. Then comes the moment, the “Aha” moment, when God brings encouragement from reading in...
by Joanne | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
This past week was the start of a new study, “A Faith That Endures: Lessons from the Thessalonian Epistles”. The Hello Morning study is going to help us explore is the question: “How can we walk daily in steadfast faith, love, and hope?” ~*~*~...
by Joanne | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently I spent time outside in our yard, weeding with my nine month old granddaughter in tow. Thankfully she was content as one could ever hope in her stroller, and enjoying seeing neighbors walk by with their dogs, the trees blowing in the wind, and eating her...
by Joanne | May 19, 2019 | Encouragement
“The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of this world. I chose you to come out of the world; so it hates you.” (John 15:19, NLT) “All of us know what it is like to be in a house that is not our...
by Joanne | May 17, 2019 | Encouragement
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Promise. The word has been defined as “a declaration that something will or will not be done or given; an express assurance on which expectation is to be...