Tag: individual

Do Not Despise the Past

Jennifred Jones

Do not despise the past, your past or any past!

Without the past there would be no present and certainly no future!

Many, many things in the past have been upsetting, grievous or seemingly unfair. Many have been downright awful or even evil. But it happened and it cannot be eradicated. Burning and destroying things and people and people’s reputations will not compensate for what happened in the past. We must decide to learn from it and create or recreate a better today and tomorrow. And it starts with us on an individual basis.

Here again comes the phrase, ‘overcome evil with good’. This is how individuals on a personal level can begin. We must become builders of good – behavior, morals, conduct, charity, relationships, ideas of how to improve our landscape whether on the home front or at work or down the street, in our local government etc. etc. etc.

As we become bearers of truth – shining light on what is good and wholesome (what does that word mean?) we will shine light on the dark ways, see them for what they were, learn from them and continue building from the past the way to a better future.

Tend the Land

Jennifred Jones

God put us in the land and told us to tend it.

We have a lot of tending to do I noticed walking through a parking lot the other day.

We will always be cleaning up after other people, but we need first to begin cleaning up after ourselves. If we can keep our allotment of land orderly (front porch, driveway, sidewalk, garage, barn, shed, bathroom, etc.); it will foster in the eyes of others the care of your ‘land’, and just might motivate them to tend their land better.

‘It’s not my trash, it flew out of the trash truck and landed in my yard!’ ‘I didn’t break the glass bottle on the street in front of my house, somebody else did!’

We’re sending signals to others around us how we do things in our land. Let’s send good signals that we are clean, neat, tidy, orderly, caring and respectful people. We will have to send these signals repeatedly, daily, over and over. That’s just the way it is. But it is worth it! You will feel better because you were helpful and did something good. Indirectly, others will feel better because things are orderly.

We individually can’t tidy up the whole world, but we can tend our small ‘plot of land’.

What do I need to tend to today on my land?