by Joanne | May 7, 2015 | Encouragement
So much is written on passion and finding purpose in life. For the past few days, I have been thinking long and hard on these words, “Find your passion.” Written in a book I was reading, they began stirring my heart to ponder the passion in my own life. I...
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...
