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 | Nov 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17, NIV) God is so good to send the rains and to then perfect if with His creation enjoying His life-giving...
by Joanne | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
The snow was softly and quietly coming down the other morning. The need was pressing to get out and get a few Christmas gifts that I now was wishing I had not put off. Resigned to stay in, I decided to wrap some instead. In wrapping the presents, my hope was that each...
by Joanne | Nov 17, 2016 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
On a Sunday night, we sat on the couch the three of us. I was flanked by each of my granddaughters and “the book of awesomeness” was spread out before all three of us. It was not a story or photo book. It was the store Christmas circular that boasts of...
by Joanne | Oct 12, 2016 | Devoted Living
I really had no intentions of ever saying anything political but … The events of the last week have been so discouraging. No matter which party you align yourself with, behavior has been lacking in character. I went to bed Sunday night feeling beat up and...
