Tag: God

Life-2

Jennifred Jones

Live today! Live your life today. Take a good honest look at your surroundings, and find the life in them.

It might be one sprig of grass turning green, one small bud on a tree branch, a brand new shiny baby calf, or the ruby red horizon starting a brand new day.

Everywhere you look there is life going on…even your eyes looking at this text are evidence of life. We have been made for life to live, to enjoy life and express life to others.

Yesterday, the thought came to me, do we point others towards the beautiful, towards life? I want to be a pointer out of beauty, not pointing out the ugly, the distasteful, the unhappy things in life.

There is enough in the negative realm spoken; we need to counteract it with the truth of all the good that is really happening.

If my only commonality with you is talking/agreeing with how bad things are, that is part of a negative/destructive mindset not uplifting and building you up.

Today, let’s look and find good and beautiful life-filled things to notice, to talk about, to build ourselves up with and then point them out to others so they will be built up also.

The sun will be coming up in about an hour…we have time to get ready!

Let’s go!

Good Heart vs Bad Heart

Jennifred Jones

There are far more people with good hearts in our world. They see a wrong done and want to make it right. They see a person in need and want to help.

Yet Bad always wants to quench the Good out/ of us through fear, intimidation, unforgiveness, neglect etc.

I can’t help that person, what would other people think?

I can’t help them after what they did to so and so!

If I help them what would my friends think.

Those people aren’t from my current associations.

I don’t have time.

Instead, let Good over power Bad.

Good will always stifle Bad if we allow it!

I’m going to help them. It doesn’t matter what somebody else thinks. If it was me, I’d be thankful for their help.

I will lay aside what they did to so and so, forgive and show goodness to them. Maybe it will melt their heart.

If my friends don’t like me helping out, then maybe I need new friends.

Our blood is all the same color and we’re all human beings, so Yes, I will help them.

I may be busy, but this will only take a portion of my time and we will both be better off.

See…it’s in you. God put his heart of goodness in you.

Now we gotta let out of our heart what is really in it.

Begin to overpower the bad with good—though you!

 

 

Can Evil Overcome Good?

Jennifred Jones

Since when has evil overcome good?  Since when do we allow evil to overcome good?

Are we going to let ugliness, destruction, hate and despair take over our beautiful world?

We have a choice and are faced with it every day and many times minute by minute.  What are we promoting inside our head, watching with our eyes, doing with our bodies. Let’s choose not to allow evil inside our head, watch it with our eyes or allow our bodies – of which we only get one – to be used for evil.

All decisions to love or to hate begin at the lowest level…with you and with me. Then it travels to the family to the neighbor, then the community, the state, then the nation.

We can be the hater that spreads hate far and wide or we can be the lover who spreads love far and wide.

It’s no use, you say, there is too much bad stuff going on and what can I do?

Do good.

In fact we need to start a ‘do good’ revolution!!!

God himself said the way to overcome evil is with good. We often try overcoming evil by using more and more force against what we don’t want and then we become destroyers instead of builders. (that will be another title)

On a personal level, doing good to someone who knows they are doing evil has many times changed them. The evil doer sees a model of what inside he/she knows is good and really wants to be, they see hope and are changed.

I know the laws are there for a reason, but bear with my example. We are inundated with stories and pictures of evil doers and deeds and too often forget how to love and do good.

And our kids (the next generation who will be taking care of us…) are watching.

The kids are always watching.

Let’s get our cleaning cloths out and begin cleaning up our own lives and then help our families, our neighbors and then our nation. Let’s put some sparkle and shine and plain ole goodness out there for all to see and want to emulate.

Dirt is always trying to accumulate, but we are able to clean things good!

Let’s have at it…today!