Tag: build up

Home!

Jennifred Jones

Your place of tranquility, peace of mind, rest and safety.

‘Where are you talking about?’ It can be a place in your mind and heart you resort to in turbulent times…a place no one can enter where you can just ‘be’ and contemplate next steps.

It can also be your physical house or dwelling where you close the door and only you and yours can be together to rest and plan and inspire one another.

I suggest it also needs to be a place of beauty…not meaning flowers all over but needs to be tidy and welcoming. How does that happen in my mind? It can be kept tidy and welcoming also. Close the door to thoughts you don’t need to concern yourself with. Leave space in there for growth and development of the good things you want to accomplish. You can’t entertain every thought or video or movie coming along. Listen to good music to help keep mentally sound. Read good books about struggle to victory.

It can be a form of relaxation to putter around your dwelling, keeping things in order, rearranging and revitalizing the look. Figure out what you like, what works for you, what helps you become a better person. So many things sound too simple and insignificant, but the little things grow and either build you up or tear you down.

It’s your home. Take care of it. Make it welcoming to you. Make it your place of refuge, tranquility and hope.

Encouragement

Jennifred Jones

To give courage is a good way of saying it.

This day and age we all need to be encouraged, and each of us need to be encouragers. We’re all fighting battles, mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and some days the battle seems a bit more intense. Some courage – even if borrowed from another – would be helpful.

Courage is transferable, just like dis-courage is transferable. Why not belong to the encouragement group of helping, lifting up, building up, holding up. The dis-courage group is seen everywhere…knock down, tear down, close down, telling them why it can’t be done…foolish, stupid, etc. etc. etc.  Is our inner networking built up by encouraging others or by knocking somebody down to go higher?

I believe the majority belong to the encouragement bunch who want to see good, be good and do good. But the dis-couragement bunch tries to prevent it. Sometimes that dis-couragement ‘bunch’ resides inside our own head! We have to root those thoughts out!

In the long run, good will overcome evil, but no sense in causing more suffering along the way by participating in the ‘dis-courage bunch’.

Today, let’s rise higher, think nobler, be better, build more, encourage more and see the difference. It may only be noticeable in you or to you. But all good things start with a single step. You start and take the first step.

Today, I will…:)

The Curtain

Jennifred Jones

There’s an unseen curtain in life…like a stage with its platform and curtain.

Are we an observer or a participant? Do we watch helplessly and complain about the play we are watching…lousy actors, poor script, props and backdrop aren’t good enough. Or can we move to the other side of the curtain and become a participant? Can we offer our services, suggestions, manpower, whatever is needed to help make the play better?

Take time to learn and study what concerns and interests you. Learn all you can to make thoughtful comments and decisions about where you can best help. You are here for a reason – to offer input and help.

This big world cannot ‘turn’ by itself. God put us here with purpose – to tend the earth – utilize its resources, create, make worthwhile projects of value to the earth and to others. There’s a lot of acreage on our planet. We need to be aware and responsible for the ‘acreage’ we live on; to tend and care for it; to beautify it and build it up…keeping it organized. It is our responsibility.

Decide today to become a participant in building up your part of the world. Learn, read, study, observe, think about the past and how it relates to our future. Take yourself and family on trips around the world and see how other people live. Listen to them talk. Watch them cook. Eat their food. Immerse yourself in this beautiful play called life.

Don’t stay stuck in uncomfortable theatre chairs when the action is happening on the other side of the curtain!