by Joanne | May 21, 2014 | Encouragement
The story of the prodigal son. We all have heard it …. The son who takes for granted all that has been given to him. The father who keeps watch for his lost son to return. The older brother, mad as all get out that he never had a party thrown for him. Hidden in...
by Joanne | May 15, 2014 | Encouragement
My children are each raised and married, one now with children of her own. They each turned out good, in spite of our many imperfections as parents. We were young ourselves when we first became parents, just twenty four years old. There was no way we could have been...
by Joanne | May 13, 2014 | Encouragement
For much of my life, I had better than 20/20 vision. Reading glasses entered my life at some point. And then … mono vision. I now wear contacts, with two different strengths, enabling my right eye to be able to read and see up close; my left to see in the...
by Joanne | May 12, 2014 | Encouragement
There are days it seems I have made progress. Then there are the days, I realize … not so much. It is the “not so much” days which can cause me to get hard on myself. At this point in life, I thought I would be so much further along. Now I am not...
by Joanne | Apr 29, 2014 | Encouragement
He shared about a dream. At length. It obviously had been something mulling about in his heart for a while. It certainly had been thought about often enough. And then he said it. You know. The sentence you say out loud which basically causes you to let go of the dream...
by Joanne | Apr 22, 2014 | Encouragement
As I cleaned the bathrooms, my thoughts began to weave around conversations had with a friend. It began last Wednesday over dinner during which we were discussing our one word for the year. One of us jokingly commented, “Do you think it would be OK to pick a new...
