TICK. TICK. TICK. 2,592,000 SECONDS of 2026 have been LIVED  by you. How has your January been so far? Did you eat the spinach and not the cookie? Did you run a mile, instead of watching tv? Did you ___________ instead of _________? Are you already tired of Winter, and looking forward to Spring, so that Summer will be closer, so that  you can enjoy Fall, so you can get ready for  Christmas, so that you can then  start your life over again in January. TICK. TICK. TICK. Today y

The DOOR is shut. You want to  OPEN  it, but there is a sign with the word WAIT! You look to the left. You look to the right. You wonder if this sign is for you or for someone else. So what do you do? You take the chance and OPEN  the door. And there is GOD holding the same sign with the word WAIT! Ugh. You are tired of WAITING  on G OD because you feel like you are giving up, because WAITING  feels like you at a STANDSTILL~ "a situation or condition in which there is no mov

GOD  says WAIT . Now does HE  actually tell you to WAIT,   or are you in a TIME  of  WAITING for __________ or __________ to happen or unhappen, and there is nothing else you can do but to WAIT  with GOD? Because GOD doesn't waste TIME,   as each SECOND is so precious to HIM that HE  desires for you to make each SECOND  precious. So you WAIT  with each passing TICK, TICK, TICK. But what happens when IMPATIENCE  gets the best of you because you are so human, so that you star

I never realized that most of my life I was SEARCHING,   because there was something missing, I never felt whole. I never felt like I belonged. I never felt like I had a place whene I could be just me, without being judged for being me, Messy me. The real me. The imperfect me. In my SEARCHING I was actually striving to create a a newer, a better version of Joni. So what was I really SEARCHING  for? To be   LOVED.   But little did I know that there was SOMEONE SEARCHING  for

I met a MAN  this CHRISTMAS who I thought I KNEW,   but the older I get I realize the less I KNOW, because THIS MAN never gets old. Because THIS MAN  is JESUS. JESUS  always BIRTHS  a NEWNESS  in my soul, that permeates through my whole being. HE  won't let me out of HIS SIGHT, because I won't let HIM  out of my SIGHT. Well, I do wander at times, but JESUS doesn't. HE  never lets me down, when others let me down. HE  never tires of listening to me, when others get tired of li

HE LIVES IN ME, so I LIVE IN HIM . I can't get away from HIM , because  HE  won't leave me. Others may come and go, but  MY JESUS  always stays because HIS FATHER  told me so and told you so~ " I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of MY hand" ( John 10:28). Only because JESUS  left the tomb, so HE WILL LIVE   in you & me & everyone else  who LIVES IN HIM . It is mind boggling at times, as it is so simple , yet it can become so co

TICK. TICK. TICK. There is no one around. It is just you and your breath. The silence is deafening. You don’t know whether you want to run or just hide. But If you hid, nothing would change. You have a choice. You know where you should go But you fear that maybe just maybe GOD  won’t be enough Because you are a wee bit angry at HIM  because you don’t like your circumstances and you know that GOD  could change them immediately. But HE  hasn’t. So what could HE  possibly do for

A NEW SECOND is an OPEN DOOR for NEW. .. A NEW beginning. A NEW end. A NEW GOOD, A NEW NOT SO GOOD. But is an OPEN DOOR to a NOT SO GOOD, really NOT SO GOOD ? Hmm. Once upon a time there lived a man named JOSEPH, who had many jealous brothers. "But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him".* Because of their jealousy, many DOORS  were OPENED in JOSEPH'S LIFE. Are all OPEN DOORS  

Tick. Tick. Tick. Three  NEW SECONDS.   Three NEW SECONDS that you have never  LIVED, but you just did reading the words Tick, Tick, Tick. Do you feel the freshness of NEW~ LIVING IN THE PRESENT. ALL  is STILL. No WORRIES  or HURRY. Oh to JUST BE in the MOMENT because this MOMENT  is all you have. Now here comes another NEW MOMENT where you have never been before. What are you going to do with it? Tick. Tick. Tick. DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING... Tick. Tick. Tick. NO MATTER WHA

TICK. TICK. TICK. SEIZE THE MOMENT. BE KIND. Those words that mean so much more to me now, as they are the words that my aunt would always say, as they were always said to her by her grandmother. And now I hold them in my heart, as she is no longer here, but with the LORD, TICK. TICK. TICK.   She lived many SECONDS, that turned into 96 years. Even though she lived a long life, a loss is a loss when a loved one is no longer here. She leaves behind a legacy through her children