by Joanne | Nov 21, 2019 | Encouragement
“Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” (Matthew 11:29, NLT) This verse sits sandwiched between two more familiar ones, thus making it one easy to overlook. Here we find in...
by Joanne | Nov 20, 2019 | Encouragement
Doubts. We all have them, we don’t like them, and are embarrassed to admit them. Doubt has been defined as “distrust; to be uncertain”; the definition quite similar in both a world and Bible dictionaries. I wrote these words to a friend the other...
by Joanne | Nov 10, 2019 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
“We love each other because he loved us first.” (1 John 4:19, NLT) “Untethered by time, he sees us all … he saw us before we were born. And he loves what he sees. Flooded by emotion. Overcome by pride, the Starmaker turns to us, one by one, and...
by Joanne | Oct 27, 2019 | Encouragement
“And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19, NLT) “God’s faithfulness has never depended on the faithfulness of his children. He is...
by Joanne | Oct 11, 2019 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Deep. The dictionary (.com) ‘deep’ as “extending far down from the top or surface”. It’s the related words which hold my thoughts...
by Joanne | Oct 7, 2019 | Encouragement
I’ve been struck with how dark it’s been these last few nights when it was still “earlyâ€. Having not looked at the clock and only at the skyline, it seemed much later. Several questions went through my mind: Was it this dark yesterday at this time? When did it...
