by Joanne | Feb 15, 2013 | Devoted Living
The Lenten season began yesterday. I did not grow up practicing Lent. No explanation as to why, we just did not. For the last few weeks, I found myself drawn into this whole idea of “giving up” something. I always found it interesting to hear what others...
by Joanne | Feb 14, 2013 | Devoted Living, Encouragement
Today I found myself reading in Genesis 19. We tend to focus on the towns of Sodom & Gomorrah & the evil that was rampant there & miss the sidebar that takes place within that story. Let me share the story of Lot & his family…. Lot has a visit from...
by Joanne | Feb 12, 2013 | Devoted Living
Over the weekend we had a whopper of a snow storm. Blizzard ’13. Storm Nemo. Call it what you want, it all equates to the same thing – PLENTY. OF. SNOW. Yet I felt cheated. Robbed if you would, by Mother Nature. All that snow & no “snow...
by Joanne | May 4, 2012 | Devoted Living
Pruning. I have been thinking a lot about this in recent weeks. With the arrival of spring & new growth, I began to walk around our house to inspect the bushes & plants that I had “pruned†in the fall. I was curious if, in the pruning process, I had killed...
by Joanne | Apr 10, 2012 | Devoted Living, Encouragement
Stuck. To feel stuck or to be stuck is a very uncomfortable situation to find oneself in. Dictionary.com defines it as: impossible or unable to move from a particular position unable to escape from a bad or boring situation unable to do more than what you are...
by Joanne | Mar 31, 2012 | Devoted Living
So I am currently reading through Deuteronomy in my Bible reading plan. This morning I went back to read a portion that I had read earlier in the week The Festival of Harvest Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the grain at the time of harvest. Then...
