Tag: stronger

A Hurting Woman

Jennifred Jones

The other day I was having lunch with a group of dear ladies.

One beautiful woman was telling her story of heartache…a bad breakup after 3 years of being together. This had happened at the beginning of the year. She was recently retired and alone now. Desperately searching for a new ‘love’ she was dating and doing many foolish things putting herself, her health and safety at great risk. But she was desperate.

Too often men and women, trying to make up for their own losses and hurts, do things they wouldn’t otherwise do because of their pain. The pain causes them to not think clearly and make unwise decisions – decisions, they later come to regret.

I listened to this dear woman, whom I’d never met before, I didn’t say anything, but I hurt with her. When we all left, we hugged each other and I said, “Take care of yourself.” and prayed for her as I drove home.

My prayer was for her to see past the pain and see her value…that just because someone she’d loved had ‘tossed her away’, that she’d not ‘toss herself away’, but become stronger and better in spite of it all. She is a valuable person.

Do you know someone who needs to be told they are valuable? Can you see in another’s eyes or hear in their voice the cry for help?

Be on the lookout and ask God to help.

Higher Powers Part II

Jennifred Jones

Think of all the higher powers used today. Most have to do with something spiritual – filling a need we cannot.

Can a higher power be anything other than me? Surely it has to be more intelligent, more aggressive, stronger in many aspects…at least think differently. I know I’m limited so I want my higher power to be what I am not.

  • Can I change my higher power to something else if I change my mind?
  • Can my higher power be the same as somebody else’s?
  • Can I tell my higher power what I want?
  • Can my higher power hear me talk to it?
  • Does my higher power like me?
  • Can I see my higher power, can I look at it?

Is my higher power working for me? Am I working for it?

Why?

Can a Storm Strengthen Me?

Jennifred Jones

Some don’t like storms. The fear of damage, destruction and loss. Even the wind blowing can cause a panic.

Yet there is a good side to storms. The strong winds are a natural form of pruning – blowing off dead and weak branches…blowing down leaves in the fall to mulch the corners of the garden and woods. The wind actually causes roots and branches to grow stronger as they stand up to resist the wind’s power.

Our bodies grow stronger – bones and muscles – as we work and use them. Kneading bread will really strengthen your core. Washing windows and mopping floors stretches and lubricates all kinds of our muscles. Even thinking through hard problems calls upon hidden reserves of our mind looking for solutions. We are made to weather storms and come out stronger through them.

One lightning bolt adds natural nitrogen fertilizer to acres of land with a single strike. That’s why everything is greener after a good thunderstorm.

Storms show us loose shingles that blew off the roof – possible leak this winter. The wind helps us see where to plug up drafty windows and doors, or where the ground is low around the foundation and water pools into the basement, and then we find out the sump pump stopped working.

Personally, when storms caused by another’s comment or action try to rock our boat, we can see the area we need to shore up better so we’re not weak and touchy there. We can discover and correct character flaws when those windy gales blow on us. Yes, sometimes these storms appear suddenly out of nowhere. But we can prepare and use the storm to strengthen us and see what we’re made of.

Has the wind been blowing hard in some direction in your life you need to strengthen? I know it has in mine.

Let’s grow stronger together.