by Joanne | Feb 19, 2013 | Devoted Living, Encouragement, Prayer
Regarding silence, Richard J. Foster writes in his book, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home…. This silence of all creaturely activity enables us to hear God. Francios Fenelon writes, “We must silence every creature, we must silence ourselves, to...
by Joanne | Feb 18, 2013 | Devoted Living
Survivor started again this week. I love the show & have been watching it now for years. This season, Survivor: Caramoaon, is pitting the fans against the favorites of past seasons. Here is what I found very interesting in the season premiere…. None of the...
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...
