by joanborton | Feb 5, 2022 | Ponderings, Prayer
The telltale envelope was easy to spot as I sorted through the mail. It contained a letter from the IRS. There was no check; it wasn’t thick enough. Just a one-page form letter in black and white with a QR code in the upper right corner. It started out exciting: the...
by JemB | Jan 9, 2021 | Instructions for Life, Lessons Learned, Prayer
I never saw myself as a word-of-the-year person. I never considered the idea. . . . . .Until three years ago, after moving to a new state. There was nothing mystical or ethereal, I just sensed that...
by JemB | Jan 15, 2017 | Instructions for Life, Lessons Learned, Marriage, Ponderings, Prayer
It is often in the seemingly little and routine things in life that I hear God turn what I am thinking or saying back around to me. Here are a couple recent examples. I often get up earlier than Jerry. I try to leave the lights off, and just use the light of my...
by JemB | Dec 7, 2016 | Family, Hope, Instructions for Life, Lessons Learned, Ministry, Peace, Ponderings, Prayer
For several months Jerry and I have been feeling a bit restless and asking God what this might be about. We asked Him to let us know if there was something that we needed to change in our lives, or if there is something He has been trying to tell us that we were...
