by Joanne | Jan 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
For several years, I have selected a One Word to focus on throughout the year. The words always seem to gain depth of meaning as each month passes. This past year, my word for 2023 was Guide. The truths this one word brought along the way have become most precious to...
by Joanne | Jan 8, 2024 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
With the turn of a page, we find ourselves at the start of a new year. A new year breathes new hope, a fresh start. It’s a blank page filled with possibilities. A new beginning. The challenge with a new year, or a new beginning, is the uncertainty of where it will...
by Joanne | Jan 7, 2024 | Quotes & Thoughts
“So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” (John 21:15, NAB) “As you begin a new year, you may be painfully aware that you have failed your Lord in many ways. Perhaps you were not...
by Joanne | Dec 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
After much thought and prayer, I will be taking some time to quiet myself during the remainder of this Advent season. It was one line in my reading this morning which stirred my heart to make this decision: “God goes to those who have time to hear him.”...
by Joanne | Dec 13, 2023 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
Advent is a most amazing time. Every portion of Scripture read somehow becomes filtered through Advent; through the birth and completed work of Jesus. “By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”...
