by Joanne | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Could. John – the beloved disciple and he knew it too. He was the one who wanted to be close to Jesus. He knew Jesus intimately and his...
by Joanne | Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
This week is the start of a new school year for our family. It’s also a new and different school year, much the same as it is for every family. Transition. It’s the word going through my head as I wonder how every everyone will do with the transition, with...
by Joanne | Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
We can be so quick to wonder where God is during difficult times. Yet there are times, we bring those difficulties upon ourselves through our own willful disobedience. This is where we found the people as we began the week in Ezra 5:11-17. “But because our...
by Joanne | Sep 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Fridays are usually dedicated to the Five Minute Friday linkup. This week there was no linkup and so I thought it might be a good time to share one from several years ago. The word was … Red. There are days we all wish we had them. You know the days – when...
by Joanne | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
We started the week with reading Ezra 4:1-10. The exiles were now in the process of rebuilding the Temple and their enemies are perturbed about it. Their enemies come with deceptive motives to try to join them in their work but the leaders of Israel are onto them and...
by Joanne | Aug 31, 2020 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
It seems like animosity is all around us, on every plane of life. Politically, racially, educationally, and spiritually, disagreements can be found easily and in number. It’s much like the virus – arguments can be caught with just one breath. “God blesses those...
