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....
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...
