by Joanne | Mar 19, 2015 | Book Reviews
I think I entered my adult life with a bunch of dreams in my head, all happy events I was anticipating and looking forward to occurring in my life. But somewhere along the way, life happened apart from my dreams. I began to doubt my dreams would ever be. The question...
by Joanne | Feb 10, 2015 | Devoted Living
“If we believe that this life is temporary, that belief alone changes how we live it.” (from the book, Anything by Jennie Allen, page 135) I recently went back to this book to reread my own underlinings and notes scribbled in the margins. This quote...
by Joanne | Jun 8, 2014 | Prayer
It is always hard to think of suffering as having a purpose. Yet we know everything which happens in our lives is for a purpose. Therefore, if suffering is a part of life’s journey, then it also must have a purpose in our lives. Henry Cloud and John Townsend put...
by Joanne | Jan 28, 2014 | Devoted Living
I had read the portion of Scripture in a devotional and have been completely stuck on this one page, unable to move on. I have been there for about a week and not exactly sure why. Yet I have been certain there was something contained in the words and paragraphs...
by Joanne | Jan 23, 2014 | Encouragement
The sermon series continued this week and the Scriptures were read. The entire chapter was read but two verses seemed amplified in my mind. I knew I would come back to them when time permitted me to do so. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has...
