by Joanne | Apr 2, 2014 | Encouragement
I read the words from my devotional …. I am pleased with you, My child. Though you are still a work in progress, you desire for Me to sanctify you – to make you holy. (Jesus Lives, by Sarah Young, page 46) And it hits me…. All God truly wants is this...
by Joanne | Mar 27, 2014 | Encouragement
Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting in on the final dress rehearsal of Little Women, a play being put on by the Fine Arts Department of Covenant Christian Academy. Its one of the perks of being the mom to the producer. I sat enjoying the rehearsal, listening to...
by Joanne | Mar 26, 2014 | Encouragement
We try to get together at least one night a week. I drive the short distance to her house, making sure to pick up a medium coffee black for her and a medium tea black for me. We sit in her living room, drink our hot beverages and discuss the week we each have had. We...
by Joanne | Mar 25, 2014 | Encouragement
We can be pretty good at making excuses. I am saying we so I won’t need to feel the discomfort of saying me 🙂 Truth be known, there are times I say, “I can’t….” when I should say, “I won’t”. It might be inconvenient, or...
by Joanne | Mar 24, 2014 | Encouragement
We go to visit to play some cards (Hearts), eat some calzones and have some laughs. And we truly do eat and play cards and laugh. But we go to also visit with his parents, who live in the attached apartment, whose minds have become the very enemy turning on their own...
by Joanne | Mar 18, 2014 | Encouragement
The story of Ruth continues to teach me new lessons. If we have heard the story of Ruth before, then we know Boaz is her kinsman redeemer, also representative of Jesus and His working in each of our lives. A “kinsman-redeemer”, very simply defined, was a...
