The beginning of a new year is an opportunity to assess where we are and where we’re going. Let me recommend two sites you might enjoy exploring: iBelieve.com and Proverbs 31.com. Both include devotional materials, encouragement, Bible studies, prayer prompts, and the encouragement we need after the two year isolation we’ve all experienced. I’m at a crossroads right now, completing one book and planning another. Both these sites are important to me today. I’ve sent for a Bible study with Lysa Terkeurst called Jesus in the Old Testament, and read an awesome blog from Susan T. Martin on music in the Bible. I’ve also begun a thirty day prayer journey praying for my husband and our marriage through Proverbs 31. I recommend you all to check out these materials available while you and I stay home avoiding yet another COVID visitation to our community.
Others of you might enjoy our study of 2 Corinthians with our small group. If you’d like the zoom link for our time together on Wednesdays at 1:00, private message me. We have “zoomers” locally and out of state. Continue with me to sow peace and grace. Just do it in Twenty-Two.
A career teacher, with forty years of teaching language arts/English, Betty Jackson enjoys wordsmithing, writing, and reading as a vocation and avocation.Retirement is her "age of frosting," a chance to pursue postponed hobbies with gusto. She especially sends kudos to the Space Coast Writers Guild members for their encouragement and advice. Her five books, It's a God Thing!, Job Loss: What's Next? A Step by Step Action Plan, and Bless You Bouquets: A Memoir, And God Chose Joseph: A Christmas Story, and Rocking Chair Porch: Summers at Grandma's are available at Amazon.com. Ms. Jackson is available to speak to local groups and to offer her books at discount for fundraising purposes at her discretion. She and her husband soon celebrate their 47th anniversary, and have lived in New York, New Jersey, Iowa, and now the paradise of Palm Bay, Florida. Their two grown children and daughter-in-love, all orchestra musicians, and our beautiful granddaughters Kaley and Emily live nearby. Hobbies, and probably future topics on her blog: gardening, symphonic music (especially supporting the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra as a volunteer and proud parent of a violinist, a cellist, and an oboist), singing, book clubs, and co-teaching a weekly small-group Bible study for seniors. She volunteers and substitute teaches at Covenant Christian School, and serves as a board member of the Best Yet Set senior group at church. Foundationally, she daily enjoys God's divine appointments called Godincidences, which show God's providence and loving kindness.