by Joanne | Apr 9, 2019 | Devoted Living, Encouragement, Uncategorized
Each Tuesday this month, I’ll be sharing from the book Whispers and Wildflowers by Sarah Beth Marr. We all want new beginnings – a fresh start. I always love the start of a new journal or notebook as it waits for fresh thoughts and quotes to take life....
by Joanne | Apr 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again. No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has...
by Joanne | Apr 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Today is April 1st. Many pranks or practical jokes may be planned and played out over the course of the day. But my mind flashes back to this day thirty one years ago. It was a pregnancy most unlike my first. Bedridden from the suspected time of being pregnant, it had...
by Joanne | Mar 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Measure. To this day, that morning in Bible Study remains imprinted in my mind. I remember where I was sitting, I can hear her tone of voice, and I remember the...
by Joanne | Mar 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the early morning light, the verse is before me: “Letters wishing peace and security were sent to the Jews throughout the 127 provinces of the empire of Xerxes.” (Esther 10:30, NLT) The story is a familiar one of how Esther and Mordecai stop the evil...
by Joanne | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
“So they called these days Purim†(Esther 9:26, NKJV). God’s people had survived a horrific plan of annihilation. These two days of celebration, Purim, were begun in order for these circumstances to be remembered. Today we would probably say it was a “national...
