Author: Jennifred Jones

Thought Regions

Jennifred Jones

What region do you live in?

Each area of the country has its own beauties and its own dangers to beware of. (I know you’re not supposed to end the sentence with a preposition…)

I live in tornado region. Then there’s …

Hurricane region

Tidal wave area

Blizzard arenas

Arid deserts

There’s crocodiles, snakes, scorpions, bears, heavy rains, avalanches, fog etc.

Mom said when she lived in Arizona, she learned to shake her shoes out every morning in case a scorpion crawled in overnight. A friend said where she lived she had to shake out her towels in case a certain type spider came to rest.

Each of us are prone to various thought regions and all the good and bad that come with them.

Some of our personal thought regions (personalities) are more prone to self-doubt, or frenzy-fits, or we fall for self-pity or control. Some battle with insecurity (this was me big time).

If we know what our (personality) thought regions are, we can be on the look out, flee and take cover from these thought dangers.

We have to be on guard against our own thoughts….guard ourselves, because no one else really knows what’s going on inside of us.

Thank God we’ve been given control over our own self. That’s a battle right there.

No need to live in fear–enjoy your region, just know your thoughts. Learn your region and its potential dangers and avert them, take cover before they become dangerous to you.

Let’s see…in my thought region worry seems to be my bad weather to guard against.

What is yours? Does fear try to sneak in? Does anger growl its teeth at you? Is a critical attitude hissing your way?

Take time each day to study where you live and how to protect yourself from the dangers in your thought region.

Afraid to Write

Jennifred Jones

We all have something important inside of us that needs to come out for the good of humanity. We want to say it, we want to write it, but we hold back….Why?

I fight these feelings all the time, as evidenced by the lulls in writing. Perhaps it’s fear that what I say or think isn’t that important so just better keep it to yourself. It’s not all that important otherwise somebody else would have said it…but what if you are that somebody?  What if you are the somebody who with your words could impact another in a way to change our world for the better? Think Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Oprah and the list goes on.

Well, I’m nobody like them; however they began as nobodies and kept speaking their heart and change began. Every river begins with a small underground trickle which becomes a stream, a creek and eventually the river they flow into.

Don’t dam up your words, your well, which wants to flow sending good waters to thirsty weary people dying inside for affection, attention, approval, encouragement they need. You can help quench their thirst and cause them to grow again.

Actually, I wrote this article about myself. I have been holding back the waters in my well, fighting what might come out, whether people would like the water I provide.

Join me now.

Let’s unclog our wells and send healing waters of words to the people around us.

My Country

Jennifred Jones

Every day as a little girl in elementary school, we stood and said the pledge of allegiance to our flag. Then we sang the first verse of this song.

It has been with me ever since.

My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From ev’ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!

There is another verse I also remember singing:

Our fathers’ God to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright,
With freedom’s holy light,
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King!

I love my country, I love my freedom, I love my God.