by Joanne | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week brought us officially into the Advent season with the reading of Psalm 24. My Grampa Spano loved this psalm and in particular verses 3-4. I can well remember him teaching me, as a little girl, to keep my heart clean and to be truthful. It is to this person...
by Joanne | Oct 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Hold. My Bible dictionary defines the word as “to have or maintain in the grasp.” I sat thinking about the word, and the action,...
by Joanne | Sep 23, 2020 | Encouragement
For the last week, I have had a woman and her story weaving her way through my thoughts. She’d been ill for twelve years. Suffering with a constant bleeding. As if that were not enough, she had suffered from the hands of many doctors who tried to help her to no...
by Joanne | Aug 25, 2020 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
This past week was the start of Hello Morning’s new study, The Dwelling Place of God. It is truly worth checking out, and I have provided links to both the site and the study in bold. The lessons brought from both Ezra and Haggai are timely for these days we are...
by Joanne | Aug 18, 2020 | Devoted Living
Our time in the devotional “Awaken” by Priscilla Shirer came to a close for now … ~*~*~ “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are...