by Joanne | Sep 8, 2017 | Encouragement
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Work. Reading the prompt, my mind immediately goes to a text conversation from yesterday. It went something like this: Person: “I have to be honest...
by Joanne | Jun 2, 2017 | Encouragement
Five Minute Friday has moved to its new home! Same linkup in a new space. The prompt this week is … Future. “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”...
by Joanne | Sep 14, 2016 | Encouragement
I am not sure how well (meaning with excellence) each of you wait but waiting well (with excellence) doesn’t come easily to me. I’m able to wait, and patiently at that, for a time and then I want to move things along. Impatience can set in. Please tell me...
by Joanne | Jun 16, 2015 | Devoted Living
We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) This is one of those verses we can so spout with the best of them, or at least I can. And then there are those times where, rather...
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...
