Author: Jennifred Jones

Make Something!

Jennifred Jones

We are made to make something! We are creative human beings designed to make and create something to increase/beautify/better this world—at least one portion of it (ours)!

I think when we’re not creating…thinking of how to build/make/design/cook/sew/plant –whatever your capacity and inclination is–then we can enter a lethargic lull…a lack of energy.

When these lulls, doldrums, whatever you call them hit…and they will…we need a project, to start something.

‘But I don’t feel like doing anything’, you say.  Then this is exactly the time you need to begin!

Just tinkering around experimenting- doing something, will shift your mind into forward gear.

I’ve learned to always have a project or two going that can be reverted back to finish and see the accomplishment of it when it’s done.

It’s not pride to look back at your work and say to yourself, “That looks good! I did alright!”

The acknowledgement of what you did will propel you to do more.

The cycle repeats.

What project do I have on the back burner ready to begin when the doldrums hit?

The Power of One

Jennifred Jones

“I can’t do anything about anything, I am only one person.”

One spark started a forest fire.

One egg hatched into a chicken that had many more.

One acorn grew a tree with many acorns making a woods.

One drop of water joined with another and made a flood.

One drop of oil opened a rusted lock.

One sheep gave enough wool to make a blanket.

One blanket kept one person warm.

One warm person boiled one egg in water over the fire from one spark, over wood by the tree from one acorn, cut down by a chain saw needing one drop of oil.

This one person wrote one letter that was read by many and changed the direction of their lives for good.

…the power of one.

What is in your good power?

Can Evil Overcome Good?

Jennifred Jones

Since when has evil overcome good?  Since when do we allow evil to overcome good?

Are we going to let ugliness, destruction, hate and despair take over our beautiful world?

We have a choice and are faced with it every day and many times minute by minute.  What are we promoting inside our head, watching with our eyes, doing with our bodies. Let’s choose not to allow evil inside our head, watch it with our eyes or allow our bodies – of which we only get one – to be used for evil.

All decisions to love or to hate begin at the lowest level…with you and with me. Then it travels to the family to the neighbor, then the community, the state, then the nation.

We can be the hater that spreads hate far and wide or we can be the lover who spreads love far and wide.

It’s no use, you say, there is too much bad stuff going on and what can I do?

Do good.

In fact we need to start a ‘do good’ revolution!!!

God himself said the way to overcome evil is with good. We often try overcoming evil by using more and more force against what we don’t want and then we become destroyers instead of builders. (that will be another title)

On a personal level, doing good to someone who knows they are doing evil has many times changed them. The evil doer sees a model of what inside he/she knows is good and really wants to be, they see hope and are changed.

I know the laws are there for a reason, but bear with my example. We are inundated with stories and pictures of evil doers and deeds and too often forget how to love and do good.

And our kids (the next generation who will be taking care of us…) are watching.

The kids are always watching.

Let’s get our cleaning cloths out and begin cleaning up our own lives and then help our families, our neighbors and then our nation. Let’s put some sparkle and shine and plain ole goodness out there for all to see and want to emulate.

Dirt is always trying to accumulate, but we are able to clean things good!

Let’s have at it…today!