by Joanne | Jan 23, 2014 | Encouragement
The sermon series continued this week and the Scriptures were read. The entire chapter was read but two verses seemed amplified in my mind. I knew I would come back to them when time permitted me to do so. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has...
by Joanne | Jan 15, 2014 | Encouragement
There are days we are left with more questions than answers. Things we cannot understand. Circumstances we will never be able to explain. The pain is greater than we ever thought we would be able to endure. Our hearts feel like they will break. The darkness envelops...
by Joanne | Jan 9, 2014 | Encouragement
I am not sure how many years ago I first did Believing God by Beth Moore. It is a study full of truths which have stayed with me. Truths committed to memory for she has you repeat truth until it becomes ingrained. How very grateful I am for all the index cards which...
by Joanne | Jan 8, 2014 | Encouragement
We went to dinner the four of us and somehow conversation turned to weird stories we had recently heard. One of us shared about children sticking out their tongues and getting them stuck to poles in the recent cold weather. It seems to happen to at least one child...
by Joanne | Jan 2, 2014 | Encouragement
A new year. A clean and blank calendar. Nothing is written in any of the boxes. And yet, God knows what each and every box will hold. He knows. Nothing is hidden to Him. Not a single event or circumstance will take Him by surprise like it will me. How amazing to think...
by Joanne | Dec 30, 2013 | Encouragement
Every now and then, something new and very different from our ordinary, and also very exciting happens in our family. A few weeks ago, our family had some new additions. Allow me to introduce you to Artie and Pepper….. Yes, they are our two society finches and...
