by Joanne | May 23, 2013 | Encouragement
Dear Weary Mom – It is amazing how such a little life can bring such fatigue. It is a fatigue beyond any other. Truly. There are days that we just long for them to go down for a nap – easily – without crying, without rocking till our arms feel like...
by Joanne | May 23, 2013 | Encouragement
For the last few days I have been drawn to a familiar story repeatedly. I read the passage again this afternoon, amazed that it held yet more truth. Let me take you through the event, as told in Mark 5…. Jesus was in the middle of a large crowd. So large was...
by Joanne | May 22, 2013 | Encouragement
Some years ago, my mom discovered that she had a poetic streak in her. We used to look forward to getting a card from her, in which, she would write a limerick to describe what was going on in our family. We would all laugh till the tears fell. None of us knew she had...
by Joanne | May 16, 2013 | Encouragement
There is a word that I have been mulling over in my head since Sunday. Sunday was Mother’s Day. And if you are a woman, you already knew this fact. I do not know how many times over the last week I read these words: “Motherhood is not for the...
by Joanne | May 15, 2013 | Encouragement
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q24z4XcJxnM&w=560&h=315] “The LORD is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life- of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1 NIV84) I know who goes before me I...
by Joanne | May 13, 2013 | Encouragement
A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” (Isaiah 40:3 NIV84) There are times in which we find ourselves repeatedly drawn back to a verse. So it has been with the verse above....
