by Joanne | Apr 21, 2016 | Devoted Living
“What do you feel like having for breakfast,” I asked myself. The response came pretty quickly, “A soft-boiled egg.” It had been a very long time since I had eaten one, maybe even years. But suddenly I wanted one like my mom used to make us....
by Joanne | Apr 20, 2016 | Book Reviews
Mothering. There is surely no task as difficult, as frustrating, and as challenging as that of being a mom. There is also not task which will bring more joyous, as filled with love, and rewarding. In the midst of temper tantrums and laundry piles, every mom needs to...
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...
