Author: Jennifred Jones

Life-2

Jennifred Jones

Live today! Live your life today. Take a good honest look at your surroundings, and find the life in them.

It might be one sprig of grass turning green, one small bud on a tree branch, a brand new shiny baby calf, or the ruby red horizon starting a brand new day.

Everywhere you look there is life going on…even your eyes looking at this text are evidence of life. We have been made for life to live, to enjoy life and express life to others.

Yesterday, the thought came to me, do we point others towards the beautiful, towards life? I want to be a pointer out of beauty, not pointing out the ugly, the distasteful, the unhappy things in life.

There is enough in the negative realm spoken; we need to counteract it with the truth of all the good that is really happening.

If my only commonality with you is talking/agreeing with how bad things are, that is part of a negative/destructive mindset not uplifting and building you up.

Today, let’s look and find good and beautiful life-filled things to notice, to talk about, to build ourselves up with and then point them out to others so they will be built up also.

The sun will be coming up in about an hour…we have time to get ready!

Let’s go!

Life!

Jennifred Jones

Live today! Today I want to talk about life…might even start a series about life…although I haven’t done a ‘series’ before.

We are at a point in time when life needs to be talked about more than ever before. There are too many other voices speaking death, destruction, disease and fear.

I’m going to be blunt up front. Before any of us were born, the original plan was to live forever enjoying beauty in a garden with every need met. That was the decision of this big, bountiful and beautiful earth and all the peoples maker. We along the way decided to take things into our own hands and death, destruction, disease and fear followed.

The maker, knowing how it would all turn out had plan B, which he knew would have to come into effect because we’re all just human…and we mess up.

Plan B leads us back into the land of life, health, abundance, peace, it this life, mind you…no need to wait for a time over yonder. The maker is a now maker and a peace maker and is for us. He is for our peace, our happiness, our life, health, security in the here and now!

Well then, why don’t I see these things in my life? Why am I all stressed out, achy, miserable and afraid to venture far?

Maybe we’ve wandered away from the maker and can’t hear his voice anymore.

He wants to help us in every little thing, in every little episode of our lives. He is for us and our good success.

He even says if you’re broken, he won’t finish you off; if there’s only a tiny bit of life left in you, he won’t snuff you out.

Talk to him in your own lingo, He can take it. He understands.

What do I need to tell him right now. He will hear me.

The Comfort of Our Past

Jennifred Jones

Some of us, me being one of them, have some really good times from our past.

We camp out there alot along the little stream of memories thinking about the good ole days. Times were slower, people were kinder, there was less bad news…

We would listen to stories at dinner how the ice-man came once a week and filled up the ice chest (what was used before refrigeration) how the lights in our grandparents home went to gas and then electric, how the kids sledded down the main streets in winter, no cars to worry about, how pretty the wallpapers were on all the walls etc. etc. etc., and we kids were in awe! Let’s go back to the good old days we’d say. Dad would chuckle and say, “Well, maybe the good old days weren’t always that good. ”

Then he would tell us stories about cleaning out the clinkers from the old coal furnace and stoking it up again every day, then in the spring, they’d use a special rubber ball and rub it all over the beautiful wall papered walls to erase the soot build up…wash all the curtains and winter garb and hang out to dry. Everything had to be ironed, and there was no indoor plumbing to name a few.

I know some of you still do certain of these things by choice, but the point I am trying to make is we are continually progressing, things change and we don’t want to get lost in our past so that we cannot move ahead to doing and trying new things.

Perfect example: When computers first arrived in the home front, they were new and different. I was sure they were a fad and would soon disappear so I was not in a hurry to learn to use one. I have since paid for that wrong thinking. Instead of learning with the rest of the world on a gentle curve, I waited until it was a cliff I had to jump from to enter the world of cyberspace. Now I can’t imagine how we’d live with out technology.

So if anybody else can benefit from this, I want to learn from and relish the good parts of my past, but not get stuck thinking they were the better days and wondering why things have to change.

I want to look towards each day with excitement of learning and experiencing new things.

This month, March, is a blustery month, blowing out winter and blowing in spring. Let’s not fear the winds of change, but anticipate new growth and fresh starts.

Where is the wind blowing you?