by Joanne | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
The snow was softly and quietly coming down the other morning. The need was pressing to get out and get a few Christmas gifts that I now was wishing I had not put off. Resigned to stay in, I decided to wrap some instead. In wrapping the presents, my hope was that each...
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...
