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...
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...
