by Joanne | Oct 6, 2025 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
For much of my adult life, my days have been spent with children, mostly toddlers. Between raising my own, doing daycare, and then tending to my grandchildren, one might say I have had more conversations with toddlers than adults. Most days it seemed like I was under...
by Joanne | May 14, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
I have been thinking about grace quite a bit the last few days. It can be casually defined as “unmerited favor.” We all like to be the recipients of grace as in: If we are late on a mortgage payment, we receive grace – no late fee, no damage done to...
by Joanne | Aug 4, 2021 | Let's Have Coffee
For months now, my daughter delivers to us each week some fruits and veggies she would not enjoy or use. They are delivered to her in a box and are labeled “misfits”. Recently I peeled and cut up a mango she had given me. It looked lovely, the sweet aroma...
by Joanne | Apr 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Gentle. My Bible commentary defines gentle as “kind, mild-mannered, soft.” In a time when words are often spoken...
by Joanne | Jan 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
The morning Bible Study group is taking the month of January to pray for our family and friends. We made it through one of the most challenging years and there was no better time to be praying than the present. As I think about how little I knew about what would occur...
