by Joanne | Nov 5, 2014 | Encouragement
I had the pleasure to join in the Love Idol journey. So I was thrilled to read about this November challenge. I printed the sheets anticipating my time in the shared Scriptures. “God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say...
by Joanne | Nov 4, 2014 | Encouragement
I read these words from my devotional …. Slumbering souls take for granted life and all its blessings. Slumbering souls tend to be overly focused on negative things. (from Jesus Lives, page 96) … and have been mulling these sentences over for a few days....
by Joanne | Nov 3, 2014 | Encouragement
I had been wearing eye glasses for several years in order to read more easily. The words began to get too small and quite frankly my arms too short 🙂 Then I began to notice things were not so clear off in the distance any longer. For a girl who prided herself on being...
by Joanne | Oct 22, 2014 | Encouragement
Lately I have noticed a few things about my thoughts. Some of the dramas I have enjoyed watching on TV work on my mind long after I get in bed. Every creak of the floor, any slight shadow movement causes me to jump and my heart to pound as my imagination runs away...
by Joanne | Sep 24, 2014 | Encouragement
I opened my devotional and the page is titled, “Sorrow”. To be honest, I just wanted to flip to another page, maybe read a different thought. I wanted something encouraging and uplifting. When I think of sorrow, I think of death. I wanted to think of life,...
by Joanne | Sep 18, 2014 | Encouragement
We all have probably been the giver and the recipient of the advice, “When you don’t know what to do, just keep moving forward.” The problem with this advice is there are truly days we may not even know HOW to move forward. What does that mean? What...
