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...
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...
