by Joanne | Apr 19, 2016 | Devoted Living
“Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not...
by Joanne | Apr 17, 2016 | Devoted Living
“Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!” (Nehemiah 8:10, NLT) The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power...
by Joanne | Apr 16, 2016 | Encouragement
We see something incredible and our first thought comes, “Who can I call?”. Our desire is to share the beauty, the incredible, the shocking with another person. Everything in us says we should not be the only ones to know and experience the sight. I...
by Joanne | Apr 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s Friday!!! I’m joining Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Many of us writing on that same word. Today’s prompt is … Easy. I look at the word prompt and wonder, “Easy? What’s that?” We have...
by Joanne | Apr 13, 2016 | Devoted Living
The emotions had been bottled up for a bit. I should have known better than to think ignoring them would make them disappear. They never do, you know. Time alone would be the only way to sort it all through and maybe, just maybe, even begin to make some sense of it...