Category: Brokeness

Just sit with God for a while.

By Joykeepin on January 16, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Sometimes you need a safe place.

The million dollar question ~ WHY on earth would you let people you had a horrible relationship with in the past rob you of a great relationship now?

By Joykeepin on September 16, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

The difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge is FREEDOM!!! Sweet glorious stand in the rain and wash me clean FREEDOM!!! THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE FREE! Head knowledge keeps us in our heads where we can war with the flesh and all our damage and […]

Little Bob ~ How Not To Live

By Joykeepin on February 16, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

He was only 5 years old and from all I have heard he was a precious sweet child that was very tender. My earliest memories of him were scarce. I remember running past the open door of the mobile home we lived in making huge leaps as Momma […]

The Living Years

By Joykeepin on January 16, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

There’s a song by Mike and the Mechanics called The Living Years It talks about parental damage and wasted time. I know this first hand and even though Dad’s been gone since 1987 I still can have something rattle my insides about the past.I have forgiven my parents […]

Shipwrecked- Can this be a good thing?

By Joykeepin on April 8, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐγνώκαμεν αὐτὸν ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ τηρῶμεν. I Repost from March 2010 John 2:3 (scroll your mouse over the words for their meaning) What do you really know? My journey recently took a rabbit trail that I am working through. I am so thrilled […]

Medicating yourself emotionally, We have to deal and heal

By Joykeepin on March 27, 2011 • ( 5 Comments )

Written March 2010. Losing my Mom was very difficult. She suffered her last days on this earth but always trusted the LORD knew best to heal her or take her home. My last conversation with her was so emotional. I did not make it to her bedside before […]

Changing Scars to Beauty Marks

By Joykeepin on May 17, 2010 • ( 3 Comments )

I heard Anne Graham Lotz talk about God changing our scars to beauty marks. LORD knows I had some scars. I was talking to someone after a lecture I attended and after our conversation I drove home with alot of what I had said running thru my mind. […]

Wail On, Pit Dwellers

By Joykeepin on March 23, 2010 • ( 2 Comments )

(Please note, I totally believe GOD wants to hear from us. I have been a pit dweller at times in my life this is written for a reminder to myself as well ) Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! No one just wakes up with an emotionally burned out crippled and crumbled life. It takes time to […]

Whatever it Takes

By Joykeepin on December 30, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

I used to sing a song called Whatever It Takes. I remember a man in my church saying to becareful because God might just do whatever it takes. Within a few years I was divorced facing life alone after 20 years. That being said let’s look at this […]