Author: Jennifred Jones

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.

Modeled and Remodeled

Jennifred Jones

I see something modeled. I think I’d like to remodel myself to be like that.

Why?

‘Why are you, lady, always asking why and trying to make me ask ‘why’?’

My Uncle Babe, now gone to heaven, told me he was always trying to get people to think. Think about what? Think on their own. Think things through. Wonder about stuff. How and why and who said it and why should I do things this way. Could there be a better way? What rule says I’m not allowed to think or speak what I’d like? I think I follow my uncle’s same way. I like to think and see through things and help other people to do the same. It’s healthy to have your own mind…to use it well to think, create, make, suggest, start…just be at peace with your own way of life.

I’m not talking about purposely causing trouble or doing wrong things, but we humans can get stuck doing the same ‘ole, same ‘ole pretty easily and become bogged down.

So begin today. Think about your models and any current remodeling you’re contemplating in your life. Why have you chosen that model to remodel after? Is that what you really want or want to become? Is it because someone else thinks you need to be that, or you think you need to be that to be accepted by them? These are tough but necessary questions to ponder.

We don’t want to be a mere cookie cutter version envisioned by somebody else. Become who you are. Set your own standard. Stand out as a model of you!

Remember, are you remodeling yourself to your design, or are you allowing others to remodel you to their pattern?