by Joanne | Jun 24, 2019 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
School is out and the first day of summer arrived last week. I always looked forward to summer. Summer always meant easier days. I didn’t need to drive our children to school. No homework and projects to help them with, or the making of lunches. Summer meant days of...
by Joanne | Jun 17, 2019 | Encouragement
Devotional books have a unique way of speaking into our current lives even when they may have been written years ago. They have a way of reminding us that nothing escapes the eye of God. Not a single blessed thing. The enemy whispers his dirty little lies in which he...
by Joanne | Jun 13, 2019 | Encouragement
In Acts 13, we find the story of Barnabas and Saul and a Jewish sorcerer, named Bar-Jesus. This sorcerer had attached himself to the governor of the region, who Scripture tells us “was an intelligent manâ€. The governor had invited Barnabas and Saul to visit him as...
by Joanne | Jun 12, 2019 | Encouragement
It may have been the very first verse we memorized in Sunday School. The words are so ingrained in my memory, it comes back in The King James Version: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not...
by Joanne | Jun 7, 2019 | Encouragement
This morning I watched as the sun came up over the corner of our property, and remembered the day we planted the tree which sits in that same corner. It was the first summer we had bought our house – 28 years ago now. Our yard seemed huge to this Bronx girl who had...
by Joanne | Jun 3, 2019 | Encouragement
I have always enjoyed a good commercial. They can bring laughter, and an exceptionally good one will be thought provoking. Such is a virtual assistant commercial which has been in my thoughts since the first time viewed. It shows a young girl returning home from...
