Keep Going!

Life is not easy for anyone right now. Prices are high and going higher. Housing is expensive and hardly available. People are tense and uncomfortable because tbey carry the excess weight of suffering and anxiety. We seem to lack unity in so much.

There is hope; we have to kindle it within us and share the light. Love is available. We can start with thanksgiving for what we have, the relationships we cherish, and all the things that bring comfort to our lives.

When we smile, it triggers a response within that naturally cheers us. We share our smiles, and it becomes contagious; the chain of influence radiates without our knowing where it will reach.

Being kind is so easy when we try. We can let people know we love and appreciate them in our words and deeds. There is a need for patience and understanding that we can fill, if we will.

Loving one another feels so much better than being grouchy and crochety. We are ambassadors in a world needing tolerance and love. Respecting everyone and everything around us brings peace and joy, which can return to us amplified. The more love we give away, the more we have to share.

So even when life seems desolate, and despair wants to tear you down, let Love guide you to persevere. Keep going!

May God richly bless you always.

Prompt: Do some little anonymous thing to bring comfort, understanding, and peace into creation. Use Creativity to give love and joy away. I promise it will return to you somehow.

Blessings surround you always.

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Seasons Vary

Growth never easy
We Love roses, avoid thorns,
Petals often torn,
Awaiting wonderful morn;
Trobles gone, we are newborn.

Much that aches, still many blessings for which I am grateful.

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God be with you.

Beyond This Now-Here

Wake up heartbroken
On a Saturday morning –
Trying to recall
How life has gone away from
Everything ever wanted.

Thinking of past joys,
How nothing is long-lasting;
Who can sudden break
From a life without focus
Into a moment stronger?

Such a task becomes
Heroic, overshadowed,
Photographs failure
The glass breaks, whole frames shatter –
Bursting forth these new edges.

In all the world, still,
A lost stranger, rearrange
The doubt, fear, and hope
So someone better steps up –
Able to revive this heart.

Defeat is over –
Rising from a warm whisper
Being made complete
To find another method,
An equation for success.

The forgiven soul
Never beaten, newly bold –
Discovers new goals
To serve what- how- ever can
To build more Love for others.

A songbird singing,
The day awakening bright;
Courage casts this time
As an opportunity
For fresh creativity.

Life changes, we grow, never static. There is yesterday, but even with our memories, it is over. We cannot tug the bygone into the present. Today is active; we are creating from the minute we arise until day’s end. If we are wise, we Love, expressing it in word and deed. This is where compassion and kindness can have influence. We build treasure in such time we invest. Tomorrow is a question, also an answer. We may plan, but cannot know. Our hopes and dreams we may place in the future, but we cannot ascertain what will come of our dearly born lives.

Today, there is hope you will find joy and many blessings. The world needs optimism in these turbulent times. We are answered prayers given to enrich others we interact with daily and in passing. God is with us as we go. We can Love even in the simple things we do. Grand gestures are beautiful, but little actions and kind words also leave lasting impressions.

As we look toward a new year, may our hope be that we build each day up with a spirit of togetherness, a willingness toward understanding, and an openness to each individual. None of us stands alone. We are all a family that needs one another.

Prompt: Find a positive outlet for your creativity today. Leave something lasting of this day.

May God richly bless you and yours. Happy Holidays!

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Always & Evermore, Jo Ann…

Probably No

It may be impossible,
But it does not
Give license
To turn
Away;
In fact,
It conveys
An even larger
Open opportunity
To embrace it with Love.

Prompt: What is Love inviting you to embrace today? Employ your Creativity to produce a form that may ignite hope in another heart.

Journal Snippet

Do you struggle with this? I admit I do. Anything I post that suggests an action or reads like an injunction is aimed at the first person, myself, before anyone else, like you.

Among the changes I have lately endured, I became separated from most of my possessions. I am learning to hold on lightly.

I struggle with trust, but I believe God abides with me. I know the Holy Spirit can go before us and prepare our paths. I believe there has been leading in the house being available to Alex almost immediately, some guys in a truck letting us know the tow rig for the Explorer came loose and was held only by a chain on our way from the hotel to this house, my finding a church home for us on the third try, and now having someone who helps me with things I cannot handle.

I am excited that I am not left strictly to my own devices because I can mess things up badly. God is in control, I thank Him for it.

I have begun reading a book titled Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. I did not realize it was a textbook until Amazon alerted me. I mentioned it to Alex today, and he commented that it sounded like something he might study at ACU. I guess it will be a long read because I want to look up the verses it gives when expressing a Biblical truth.

I am also reading Shadows of Winter by Lindsay Buroker, which is a sci-fi novel. It is a much easier read; well-written, and fast-paced. I also have some reads I neglected to finish that I need to finish up.

I wonder if you are ever set upon by AI and have to ignore it to retain your voice. It makes it such that I rather write longhand. I am also abysmally slow as a typist or texter.

I hope you have an awesome rest of your day. May God’s blessing be upon you all along your way.

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Enough said. Always and Evermore…