by Joanne | Sep 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
God is love. We hear it often, perhaps even say it. It is such a simple statement, yet the most powerful of all statements. God loves us for ourselves, and not for anything we can do or give Him. We cannot cause God to love us more, or less, than He already does. Yet...
by Joanne | Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Endure. Upon seeing the word prompt, Psalm 136 comes to mind. It is there we find the words, “His loved endures forever”. Those...
by Joanne | May 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Refrain. Upon reading the word, one definition comes to mind … a phrase occurring repeatedly in a song or a poem (or in this case, a...
by Joanne | Nov 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Repeat. “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.” (Psalm 136:1a, NIV) It’s a call to give thanks to the Lord, to express gratitude for all He...
by Joanne | Jul 13, 2017 | Encouragement
“I will sing to the Lord because he is good to me.” (Psalm 13:6, NLT) We tend to base the goodness of the Lord towards us on our current circumstances and this can leave us in a state of spiritual amnesia and shortsightedness. Not at all healthy for us....