by Joanne | Jan 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
For several years, I have selected a One Word to focus on throughout the year. The words always seem to gain depth of meaning as each month passes. This past year, my word for 2023 was Guide. The truths this one word brought along the way have become most precious to...
by Joanne | Jan 8, 2024 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
With the turn of a page, we find ourselves at the start of a new year. A new year breathes new hope, a fresh start. It’s a blank page filled with possibilities. A new beginning. The challenge with a new year, or a new beginning, is the uncertainty of where it will...
by Joanne | Dec 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
After much thought and prayer, I will be taking some time to quiet myself during the remainder of this Advent season. It was one line in my reading this morning which stirred my heart to make this decision: “God goes to those who have time to hear him.”...
by Joanne | Dec 13, 2023 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
Advent is a most amazing time. Every portion of Scripture read somehow becomes filtered through Advent; through the birth and completed work of Jesus. “By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”...
by Joanne | Dec 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
It is amazing how a song can hit with a freshness that causes one to stop in absolute wonder. One line breathes life into that which has been known for years. “A virgin cried when You were born. Tears of joy and tears of pain.” Mary, a young girl, pregnant and unsure...
by Joanne | Dec 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Turn. I have been listening to the song, mostly on repeat, for over a week. Even now as I type, the tab is still open. I had left it...
