by Joanne | Jun 18, 2014 | Encouragement
It has been a long time since I have had nights like the last few. Perhaps you know the kind. I was bone tired. Not another ounce left in me. All I wanted to do was sleep and yet, sleep evaded me. I tossed and turned. I got up to walk around the house a bit, thinking,...
by Joanne | Jun 17, 2014 | Encouragement
I look out our window which faces our yard and there it is – the patch of grass which used to be our garden. It now has freshly planted green grass growing beautifully. After last summer, we made the decision not to have a garden any longer. There seemed to be...
by Joanne | Jun 11, 2014 | Encouragement
There are those times in which life just doesn’t turn out the way we anticipated. Disappointment – we have all faced it in life. Perhaps in different circumstances. Perhaps more than once. It can come wrapped in many ways, throughout out lives …....
by Joanne | Jun 10, 2014 | Encouragement
I will readily admit … I do not like change. I just don’t do well with it. I am a routine kind of person. I like to know when the next shoe is going to drop. And that is a problem. The reality is – we truly are not able to know when that is going to...
by Joanne | Jun 4, 2014 | Encouragement
We both needed the vacation desperately although neither of us realized just how much. It was a wonderful week away. And then we came home. We knew we would. As good as it was to get away, it felt even better to come home. Let’s see if I am still saying that in...
by Joanne | Jun 3, 2014 | Encouragement
“Happy Anniversary!”, we exclaimed as we toasted and clinked our glasses during our celebratory dinner. “And here’s to another thirty five, ” I said. The realization quickly hit us – there probably would not be another thirty five....
