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I enjoy learning about my faith and spending time in prayer in nature, in the chapel or in my prayer chair. Many years ago, my journey began when I was re-awakened in my faith when I asked God what my purpose was. He answered by setting me on fire and I have been journeying with Him since.

• Crazy in love…with Jesus!

  By joannsblog2016 on February 14, 2019 • ( 2 )

    “Crazy in love with Jesus!” “Crazy in love with Jesus,” a message one of my awesome sister’s in Christ sent me.  I think that’s the best crazy comment I have ever received.  If I’m going to be called crazy,… Read More ›

• Broken and glued…

  By joannsblog2016 on February 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak and as many as touched it were healed.  Mark 6:55-56 Have you… Read More ›

• Life’s greatest sustenance

  By joannsblog2016 on February 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  What sustains you in life, through your struggles, illness, pain? How do you find peace in knowing this life is not permanent? Today, as I sat in the infusion room waiting for my IV of ferritin, I peered around the… Read More ›

• Light in the darkness

  By joannsblog2016 on February 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world.  Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Have you strayed from the path God was leading you on?  Perhaps… Read More ›

• A small box and a big God

  By joannsblog2016 on February 3, 2019 • ( 6 )

  “If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?” Romans 8:31 Have… Read More ›

• The deeper meaning

  By joannsblog2016 on January 23, 2019 • ( 1 )

  “Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10 When you read Psalm 46:10, what comes to mind? What do you think God is asking you? This verse has been a headline in my head for years.  In fact,… Read More ›

• How much do I love thee?

  By joannsblog2016 on January 17, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.  Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.  In this way the love of… Read More ›

• Refuge in the rubble

  By joannsblog2016 on January 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress.  Thus we do not fear, though earth be shaken and mountains quake to the depths of the sea.”  Psalm 46:2-3 Have you experienced the summit of the mountain… Read More ›

• Heart of the matter

  By joannsblog2016 on January 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  “I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.  I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 Have you been struck with… Read More ›

• I will not be shaken

  By joannsblog2016 on January 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  “I keep the Lord always before me.  With Him at my right hand, I shall never be shaken.”  Psalm 16:8 Are you aware of God’s constant presence with you?  If He was sitting next to you, whispering to you, would… Read More ›