Have you ever been brokenhearted? It’s not something we like to feel. It’s not something we like taking about. But unfortunately, we do experience brokenness in this fallen world. I love reading the Psalms of David. So many of them are filled with nothing but praise and worship of God, for who He is and […]
Author: Joan
Lean In A Little Closer
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! “And after the fire came a gentle whisper.” 1 Kings 19:12b (NIV) Have you ever been on a spiritual high? A place where you were seeing and feeling God really move? But then, there’s a […]
Leaving A Trail
I have a thirty minute drive to work and I often find myself enjoying the morning sky. The changing colors in the sky as the sun rises always amazes me at the beauty of God’s creation. My husband can assure anyone that I really am not a morning person but when I get out the […]
“But What About Me?”
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today (1/25/17) over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! I’ve always been a quiet person. I’d rather stay in the background than to be the center of attention. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like the occasional, “Atta girl,” or “Good job!” I think […]
A Mary Christmas
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today (December 28, 2016) over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! Sitting At His Feet And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not […]
Holiday Separation – For a Time
If you stopped by because you read my devotion on November 18, 2016 over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! “For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall […]
The Lights In The Heavens
As I headed to work one morning, I saw the still full moon as it was setting in the west. It was becoming very dim in the pale blue of a morning sky not yet fully lit with the sun. I tried to take a picture of that sight but the photo could not adequately […]
Good Times Or Bad?
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! Everything works for our good? Really? So many times when this verse is quoted, it is when something bad has happened to a believer. Does all of the bad things that happen to believers really […]
R. I. P.
I have to say that I don’t really like the scary displays that are seen around Halloween. The ghosts and zombies, headless bodies and tomb stones. As I drove past one yard I saw a tombstone with “R.I.P.” written in big black letters. That is seen a lot around Halloween but it is also used at […]
Preparing The Garden…
…And Preparing For Harvest If you stopped by because you read my devotion today (Sept. 8, 2016) over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who […]