by Joanne | Apr 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
The news, sports, and recent TV shows had just about worn me down. So I recently turned to watching older and more historical programming. In so doing, a word crossed my path. Farrier. Yet what was seen before my eyes was an old fashioned blacksmith. It was...
by Joanne | Mar 3, 2025 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
My husband and I have always said, if there is an easy way to do something, it always ends up being the hard way for us. No matter how we may think it through and plan it out, it usually ends up being harder than we originally had thought. Sure my husband and I became...
by Joanne | Jun 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
We used to talk every single day. We were young mothers raising our daughters and we needed the support of one another. The conversations were real and raw; we bared it all to one another through laughter and tears. Then it was all covered in prayer together before we...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2020 | Prayer, Uncategorized
The mere mention of the Book of Job is enough to send one running. The book reminds us of loss and devastation and painful suffering. After losing everything but his wife, whose only advice was to “Curse God and die.†(see Job 2:9), Job still remained faithful to...
by Joanne | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
The start of a new year begins with a return to the devotional “Settle My Soul” by Karen Ehman and Ruth Schwenk. Our group will finish this devotional book and I truly cannot recommend it enough. ~*~* We began with reading Psalm 119:71 and Hebrews 5:8:...