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No Hope

Jennifred Jones

How many of us quit moving forward because of no hope?

‘It’s over. Nothing is working. I’ve missed another Monday. Tomorrow won’t be any different. It’s bigger than I am. Why try?’ and on and on and on and on and on…..

There is always hope. It’s often we can’t see it, so we say all of the above.

Begin by thinking backwards – to a time you hoped for something, and it happened. “Well, that was back then”… but back then it was ‘now’, so what’s the difference? You believed it could maybe happen. You had a hope. So you did something about it and it happened. Same thing can happen again.

Hope is only a decision. A small decision, a nod towards what you want. The light in the distance. The clearing in the forest. It is a decision things can become better.

After you decide then you will begin to do. You may not know what or where to start but just begin. Your hope will pull you forward leading you. The scenery of your life will look different. You will see new things and new ideas will come to mind. Your life will appear fresh and free again. Hope will grow and so will you.

Anytime you lose hope, decide to move forward anyway. The picture will change as you move from despair. It will be behind you – a thing of the past. You have better things to do.

Tenant vs Resident?

Jennifred Jones

Are you a tenant or a resident? The words mean basically the same thing, but in my mind they seem different.

When the kids were small, we moved a lot. Rather than buy a house we rented. We were tenants. We lived in somebody else’s house, on their property, under their jurisdiction.

My husband had a rule of thumb. Always leave things better than when you found them. One time we borrowed his younger brother’s car while ours was in the shop. Before we returned it, he said, ‘We’re going to vacuum his car and wash it. Then we’ll fill it with gas before we take it back.’ He felt it so important to leave it better than when we got it.

This translated into the houses we rented. We always improved upon them any way we could. Putting in flower gardens, keeping everything swept and tidy, doing painting, deep cleaning, maintenance, yard care, anything we could do to make it better, and others noticed, including the landlord. We didn’t want to ‘live up’ to the name ‘renters’!

That was the difference in my opinion. A tenant was a ‘mere’ renter…living in somebody else’s place where the landlord did all the work. The tenant did nothing…maybe even was destructive to the place.

We were residents! We lived there, it was our home and we wanted to take good care of it like it was our very own! We were proud to live there and help keep it up. It was a true sense of ‘ownership’

How do you feel about this?

Bring it Out!

Jennifred Jones

To bring out the best in others, I have to work at bringing out the best in me!

Yes, it works both ways. As I improve, others improve. As others improve, I will improve.

When there’s a willingness to change for the better, good things can happen!