by Joanne | Jun 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous – how well I know it.” (Psalm 139:14, NLT) “Antonio Stradivari was a seventeenth-century violin maker whose name in its Latin form, Stradivarius, has become...
by Joanne | May 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Name. We are told she went to the tomb early, while it was yet dark, to go to the tomb where Jesus had been laid. Upon finding the stone rolled away from the...
by Joanne | May 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
We continued with the second week in “A Faith That Endures: Lessons from the Thessalonian Epistlesâ€. The question we explored was: How are we to care for ourselves so that we are better able to care for others? ~*~*~ In 1 Thessalonians 2:5-8, Paul explains the way...
by Joanne | May 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
As I write this, it is early morning and the windows are opened. The rain is gently falling and the sweet sound of birds chirping is filling my ears. My soul is reminded to trust God in all things: “Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in...
by Joanne | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
This past week was the start of a new study, “A Faith That Endures: Lessons from the Thessalonian Epistles”. The Hello Morning study is going to help us explore is the question: “How can we walk daily in steadfast faith, love, and hope?” ~*~*~...
by Joanne | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently I spent time outside in our yard, weeding with my nine month old granddaughter in tow. Thankfully she was content as one could ever hope in her stroller, and enjoying seeing neighbors walk by with their dogs, the trees blowing in the wind, and eating her...
