by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 7, 2021 | Words for a Christmas Journey
About 10 years ago I really started struggling with the month of December, and Christmas in particular. Christmas songs didn’t spread joy in my heart, they created an ache. The sheer nostalgia of the words, the slight melancholy feel of the music over against the...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 3, 2021 | Words for a Christmas Journey
Recently I joined a new prayer group. I committed for several reasons, the most passionate being I want to move beyond what I know into “more.” Prayer had begun to feel like tracks worn and hollowed from use. Something fresh was in order. At the close of the second...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 30, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
Having given thanks and broken bread together, Jesus sent His disciples out to live kingdom lives and do kingdom work. Right away, it seemed they lost everything…only to find, that losing was the way winning came. And so, we come to the end of this Thanksgiving month....
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 26, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
There is a comfort in the strength of love ‘Twill make endurable a thing which else Would overturn the brain or break the heart. –William Wordsworth Perhaps there are few avenues more poignant to experience grace than in our friendships. How we enjoy the...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 23, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
“Take me to the King. I don’t have much to bring. But my heart is torn in pieces…Please, take me to the King.” Sitting in a hotel room, or a mission house, or the front seat of a car…it doesn’t matter the location…conversations lately have been more like heart cries...
