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...
by Joanne | Apr 17, 2014 | Encouragement
The mat has always been by the back door. We don’t have a mudroom. We each take off our shoes, leave them on the mat and enter. On any given day, there is at least one pair of shoes there. As I glance over, three pairs currently sit there. But the day had come....
by Joanne | Apr 10, 2014 | Encouragement
I had finished reading Love Idol by Jennifer Dukes Lee a few weeks ago. I thought I was done with it and yet, somehow, I keep coming back to the message the book drives home in a most powerful manner. Case in point. I was reading Scripture this morning for the New...
by Joanne | Apr 3, 2014 | Encouragement
Doubts. We all have them. I have had them over the course of my life. At those times … how I have wanted to hide them. Deny them. Pretend I didn’t have them. But they were there. Doubt has been defined as … “to be uncertain about; consider...
