Author: Jennifred Jones

A Hurting Woman

Jennifred Jones

The other day I was having lunch with a group of dear ladies.

One beautiful woman was telling her story of heartache…a bad breakup after 3 years of being together. This had happened at the beginning of the year. She was recently retired and alone now. Desperately searching for a new ‘love’ she was dating and doing many foolish things putting herself, her health and safety at great risk. But she was desperate.

Too often men and women, trying to make up for their own losses and hurts, do things they wouldn’t otherwise do because of their pain. The pain causes them to not think clearly and make unwise decisions – decisions, they later come to regret.

I listened to this dear woman, whom I’d never met before, I didn’t say anything, but I hurt with her. When we all left, we hugged each other and I said, “Take care of yourself.” and prayed for her as I drove home.

My prayer was for her to see past the pain and see her value…that just because someone she’d loved had ‘tossed her away’, that she’d not ‘toss herself away’, but become stronger and better in spite of it all. She is a valuable person.

Do you know someone who needs to be told they are valuable? Can you see in another’s eyes or hear in their voice the cry for help?

Be on the lookout and ask God to help.

Eye See You

Jennifred Jones

My son said this might be more of a mom thing. Maybe he is right.

But I like eye-gazing into my grandkid’s eyes. Eye to eye. Just staring and looking into their eyes while they look back into mine. First it is out of a love for them, as it was for my own children. I want them to know and feel it in their little bitty eyes and self that I love and care for them, that I see them and want them. Second, it is a means of security for them that someone is holding them and spending time with them. They are important to someone bigger than they. Gaze as long as they will let you. It seems a peace will come over them while you are holding them just looking.

This will work for older children too. Sit with them and look at them…don’t need to say a word. Just sit and smile and put your arm around them if they’ll let you. Most kids only want to know someone is looking at them. You be that someone.

Gazing one on one with others is also good. We want to be looked at eye to eye when talking with others – showing we value them and feel what they have to say is important to us – to another human being. We’re not doing a quick glance, but eyeball to eyeball facing the other and talking person to person. We are adding and showing value to them just by seeing them in our everyday experiences.

Is there someone in your life that needs your eyes to gaze into theirs to bring them love, peace and assurance?

My Stack

Jennifred Jones

There is a stack of post-it notes by my laptop. It has been there for years…not the same papers in the pile, but the stack is still there.

Every day new thoughts emerge to share with my readers. Who knows where to start? So I jot them down …most of the time…so they aren’t forgotten and soon there are so many!

Today I begin again: (This came to me while I was making applesauce)

Read You Own Book!  (This is today’s post)

Your book is you. There are many chapters to your book. Which one are you on now? Which chapters have passed? Which chapters are you still living or trying to live in?

Books are written successively. One chapter leads to the next. We don’t write backwards. We write always moving forward because life moves forward. It is not to become stagnant.

Do not put your book – your life – back on some dusty old shelf not to be seen or read by anyone. Keep it open – the pages turning- writing new and better chapters of your explorations and points of interest. Make sure your book is as interesting as possible so you will want to keep writing. Others will see what you’ve written and want to read it, and you will want to remember how and what you did.

Keep working on your book. Keep working on you. Everyday our life is published somewhere.