by Joanne | Dec 18, 2016 | Prayer, Uncategorized
“Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant.” (Luke 1:38, NLT) Dear Jesus, What a remarkable person she was, your mother. Help me to hear beyond the liturgical familiarity of those words to their far-reaching implications. The honor bestowed on...
by Joanne | Dec 16, 2016 | Devoted Living
It’s Friday which means I am joining Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday. And .. it is the final Five Minute Friday of 2016! Not sure how it happened but this year flew by! But it is still a one word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Many of us writing on that same...
by Joanne | Dec 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
In between the Old Testament and the New Testament lies a period of time in which God’s people lived under six different governments. And silence. Four hundred years of silence to be exact. God who had led them with a cloud by day, fire by night, who had...
by Joanne | Dec 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Think of some of the Christmas hymns we sing each year. We know many of them by heart but may not have given much attention or thought to the words themselves. Like this line from “O Come, Let Us Adore Him”: “Word of the Father, now in flesh...
by Joanne | Dec 13, 2016 | Devoted Living
It snowed the other night. Not enough to be bothersome and in need of shoveling. It was the soft, quiet, and gentle snow that covers just enough to blanket the trees and grass in a white beauty. I open my book in the early morning and read: “I will hearken what...
