by Joanne | Jun 9, 2025 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
Our backyard is lined with woods. It is amazing to watch the change these woods go through each season. Right now, they have fully thickened as spring unfolded all which grows. They are dense and green, and hardly a neighbor’s house can be seen. Sitting one...
by Joanne | May 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Contentment. The word has been on my mind the last week. Contentment brings the image of being satisfied with what one has, or is doing. It has a deeper significance though. There is a delight, an enjoyment, and pleasure which fills our souls when we are content. The...
by Joanne | Apr 22, 2025 | Let's Have Coffee
Discontentment can raise its head from time to time, and quite unsuspectedly. It also can present itself in various ways, often making it difficult to identify. Such was the case so I reached for a much beloved book and read the familiar words: “The prudent...
by Joanne | Nov 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
“I will live in the house of the Lord forever.†(Psalm 23:6b, NLT) “Here is a sheep so utterly satisfied with its lot in life, so fully contented with the care it receives, so much “at home: with the shepherd that there is not a shred of desire for a...
by Joanne | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
“I have all that I need.†(Psalm 23:1, NLT) As we continue into this psalm, we find David making a pretty bold statement in the middle of adversity, “I have all that I need†or in the more familiar, “I shall not want.†How is he able to say that? To do so,...
