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Joy Petroelje

Joy Petroelje serves as the grants manager for a faith-based international nonprofit organization. Aside from work, she enjoys family time, coffee or dinner with friends, writing, reading, and running.
Devotionals

Waiting

Read: Isaiah 40:21-31 They who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall

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Grateful for Smell

Read: Numbers 28:16-25 In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. (v. 24) The

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Grateful for Taste

Read: Psalm 34:1-14 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! (v. 8) Some of my most simple but treasured memories are tied to specific tastes and experiences. Like

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Grateful for Grace

Read: Ephesians 2:1-10 It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. (v. 8 NIV) There are times

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Grateful for Help

Read: Exodus 17:8-16 Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down

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Grateful for Refuge

Read: Psalm 143 I hide myself in you. (v. 9 NIV) Have you ever played the game hide and seek? If so, did you ever hide so well that no

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Grateful for Sunsets

Read: Psalm 2 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. (v. 11) My family lives about 25 miles from the sandy shores of Lake Michigan. While we do

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Grateful for Sunrises

Read: Lamentations 3:19-27 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” (v. 24) I love the beauty of the sunrise. As the first piercing

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Grateful for a Living Hope

Read: 1 Peter 1:3-12 According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

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