by Joanne | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Advent season is upon us once again. Thanksgiving has passed. Well, all but the leftovers. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have ushered in the rush of purchasing gifts. Even the Hallmark Channel is now focusing on Advent with 24 hours of Christmas movies from now...
by Joanne | Dec 26, 2014 | Encouragement
It is the morning after Christmas. At this point, all the gifts are unwrapped and opened. We’ve oohed and ahhed over each and tried them on and played with them and laughed over them. For all those who need to know, there are only 363 days 15 hours 17 minutes...
by Joanne | Jul 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
(picture from Wikipedia – public domain) It is so easy to jump on the band wagon. You know the band wagon effect …. to do or say or think a particular way because everyone else is doing so to go along with a popular trend to go along with the crowd The...
by Joanne | Dec 12, 2013 | Christmas 2013
No matter how hard we may try, it is pretty difficult to separate ourselves from the entire concept of Santa Claus. Everywhere we go this time of year, he appears – every mall has one, Christmas cards are decorated with him, story books, movies & yes, we...
by Joanne | Jul 29, 2013 | Devoted Living
Communion matters to me. Deeply. I am not even sure what has caused me to think about this for the last few weeks. It started at VBS with a donated loaf of bread from Panera. It looked exactly like the loaf of bread used for Communion when I was growing up. My dad...
