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...
by Joanne | Mar 17, 2014 | Encouragement
“Reading the gospels one after another seems so redundant,” she said to me. I continued to think about her words long into the day. I remembered thinking the very same thing once, after all, each gospel tells the same stories of the time Jesus spent on...
by Joanne | Mar 6, 2014 | Encouragement
When I began blogging, about 4 years ago now, I had no idea what I was doing. To be quite honest, I still don’t. And if you don’t believe me, you can ask either of my children who are constantly helping me with how to post or link or grab buttons, etc. I...
