Tag: permission

An Appeal to our Better Selves

Jennifred Jones

I’ve heard it said you need to know your audience before you start talking…so you’ll know if anybody’s listening…

So today I decided my audience, the people I want to talk to are those who already want to do the good thing, they already have convictions about right and wrong, they just need someone to give them permission to step out of the box of societal-correctness and be free to share what’s really on their heart, what they really want to do, who they really want to be, what good they really want to do, how they really want to conduct their lives and their family.

I give you permission!

I am just a nobody, but I am also a somebody and I gave myself permission. Now I am giving you what has been given me…permission to be your best you!

Don’t hold yourself back. This world, your community, your family needs you!

Let You Out!

Jennifred Jones

Once upon a time most of us were carefree little kids. Mom and Dad, or Grandma and Grandpa would let us out to play. We’d make cups and bowls out of river-bottom clay, build bridges with sticks and stones, clothes-pin baseball cards to our bike spokes and listen to the clatter. We’d mix our food together different ways and eat it. We’d sew dresses for our troll dolls…

We started to grow up and somebody told us our striped shirt didn’t look good with our plaid shorts. The frosting on our homemade cake was an ugly color. Our glasses looked dumb. Our feet were too long, our hair was too curly…self-conscious, self-conscious, self-consciousness began to set in.

It’s too painful fighting off the thoughtless comments from others… I’m not going to do anything different, not going to be made fun of again…gonna blend in so no one sees me AT ALL!

Years pass, nothing changes, it’s day in-day, day-out…same ole, same ole. “Oh how I wish I could be more than a cog-in-the-wheel.”

That is the voice of our true calling…asking us:

Who are you? Where are you going? What do you really want to do? Are you tired of the rat -race?

Get back to the childhood freedom of mind. Begin to think, play, design, dream, plan, imagine, tinker.

It’s time to let ourselves out!

We do not need to ask permission…