Tag: stuck

Stuck!

Jennifred Jones

Don’t allow yourself to remain stuck thinking…

‘I don’t know about…or how to…’   You’re holding yourself back.

Part of the purpose in life is to grow and develop what we like, who we are and begin to share and help people. It’s so fulfilling to be on a path talking with others about newly attained interests.

So, what interests you? What do you want to know more about?

  • Different sizes of bird eggs and why?
  • Sunset times across the globe.
  • Which plants do better in the sun or shade.
  • Why linen is more sustainable and easier to grow than cotton.
  • Where can I collect rocks?
  • How do I mix a batch of concrete?
  • How to start a campfire?
  • How can I make bread?

Pick an area and begin to inquire more about it. talk to people, read online or at the library. Anything to get you moving again.

One of the best things is to go outside, get some fresh air, take a walk and let your mind be free to look at what is there and what you already have.

Let’s get ourselves unstuck so we can move freely in life.

We really can!

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!

Move Forward

Jennifred Jones

Sometimes, many times, too many times, without realizing it we come to a stop.

Growing up my father worked hard to provide for us, but on a professor’s income and only getting a paycheck nine months of the year, summertime was very hard for him and our family. We had the time to do many things, but no easy income. Mom supplemented with her interior design business, but too often dad would begin a project with what he had and then would have to stop because he couldn’t afford the supplies needed to finish the project.

I remember him saying so often, “we’ll just coast for a little bit”. We kids had lots of energy and willpower to do things, but we couldn’t.

It became a habit that when things became too hard either mentally or physically, (I think alot of it was emotionally) rather than hit the problem head on or think of another way, we’d just ‘coast’.

Dad lost his father at age 13, and him being the oldest had to assume the responsibility along with his mother and aunts and grandma to figure how to make ends meet.

Dad was the most loving, kind father. He was a deep thinker with a very bright mind, but he would get stuck in these moments and too many summers ended with yet another uncompleted project. I could tell this frustrated my dad. He didn’t know how to deal with it at the time.

It’s something how our past can affect our future until we redirect it and get on a new, better path.

I have struggled with the same patterns my father did in getting/feeling stuck…almost a feeling of being helpless. Not hopeless, but helpless, not sure how to get to the next point or who to ask for help…the feeling of having to figure it out all alone.

But that’s why God gave us each other. If Covid taught us anything, it’s we need other people, we cannot make it on our own. I have discovered people want to help other people. It’s humbling to ask for help, yet it is in our nature to be of help.

Most people want to help. So there’s no real reason to remain stuck or coast. We can ask for the help we need and together move forward.

Today, I had to ask two people for help so I could move forward in an area that is big to me. They helped me and felt good about it, and I moved forward as a result.

I choose not to stay stuck or coast through my life.

Are there areas in you life you feel stuck or are coasting?

Let’s move forward together.

C’mon…