by Joanne | May 20, 2021 | Encouragement
I am an early riser but this was early even for me. The words came to mind bringing a sweet comfort and peace: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2021 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
As the past year was coming to a close, and with my one word for the new year now in focus, I felt in my heart it was time to crack open a new Bible. The Bible had been on my shelf, still in the box, from the day I “won” it at a warehouse sale. It was a...
by Joanne | Jun 24, 2020 | Encouragement
Devotional books have a unique way of speaking into our current lives, even though they may have been written years ago. They have a way of reminding us that nothing escapes the eye of God. Not a single blessed thing. The enemy whispers his dirty little lies in which...
by Joanne | Jun 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … How. The last few months have brought more questions than answers as of late. Several crises colliding in our country and world have left...
by Joanne | Nov 20, 2019 | Encouragement
Doubts. We all have them, we don’t like them, and are embarrassed to admit them. Doubt has been defined as “distrust; to be uncertain”; the definition quite similar in both a world and Bible dictionaries. I wrote these words to a friend the other...
