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...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 19, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
“Oh, the discrepancies between everything we want and what we need.” The first time I heard this song we were going through a rough time. I felt like my whole world was turning upside down. Grasping at anything solid to hold onto I reached for stability that no one...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 16, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
If singers invite us to immerse in truth carried on a song, then poets invite us to envision what we know deep down but can’t yet see. Poets are able to show vision’s path because they notice the nuances of life, of heart, of what’s real. Each nuance tugs open the...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 12, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
Music. How I love it. The variety of it, the colors of it, the emotion and the way you get to express in notes what you sometimes can’t say in words. I love that you get to act silly or passionate and give yourself over to the life of the music which somehow shifts...
