by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 15, 2020 | Joining Together
“God is King, robed and ruling, God is robed and surging with strength.” (Psalm 93:1 The Message) “Like every newborn he has come from very far. His eyes are dazzled by the brilliance of the star. So glorious is he, he goes to this immoderate length To show his love...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 14, 2020 | Joining Together
The yearning for renewal and rebirth is the voice of God calling you to something more. His love, poured over you, wakes up that desire to recognize more, see more, taste more, and experience more of Him. The hunger to enter more fully into His everlasting love began...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 13, 2020 | Joining Together
Life in jail. Suffering. Isolation. Misinformation. Everything designed to break a faith or break a spirit. Are you really the One? It’s what we ask when suffering has gone on for a while. It’s what we ask when our hearts are hurting. It’s what we ask when we need to...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 12, 2020 | Joining Together
Mary, the mother of Jesus on the way to the tomb Sunday morning dawns and I feel strangely quiet inside. Grief’s hurricane has emptied my heart. Where activity created energy to live, all has ceased, dying down to a flat, windless quiet. On the outside, everything is...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 11, 2020 | Joining Together
Mary, Jesus’ Mother It hurts to breathe. Why does life go on around me as if the world has not seized and shifted? Do they not know? Have they not heard? My Son is dead. My Son is dead. Those words feel foreign and wrong on my lips. How can they be true? I ache all...
