Miss Janie's Baby Speaks...

Monday, December 12, 2011

Good Monday Morning!

I am reaching out from a new place in my house this morning. I've reorganized my entire living room/dining room/office area and now I have an office to go to each morning! I use to get a lot accomplished when I could sit and write and explore, so now that that part is completed...I'm on to doing a bit more constructively from a chair and not my bed! LOL I wish each of you a good morning and a fine day. Praise God for all of His goodness and honor him today in some way.

Yesterday, I watched Joel Osteen and paid close attention to him during his sermon about being appreciative to people who make a significant difference in your life just by having your back in some small way. I said that I was gonna start doing that right here. So today I honor one of the first persons in my life upon arrival in this world...Janie Willie Nicholson Jones....Grandma!

She took over my life when she was 62 years old, a baby of 9 months! What a sacrifice that was. I am now 62 years old and if anyone tries to give me a baby to take care of, I don't know what I would do to them or with the baby! She nurtured me over 17 years and instilled in me many of her values. They were not evident in the beginning of my life, but now having reached that age, I can appreciate and apply many of those values. Had it not been for her, I don't know where in this world I would be now. My job now is to make sure everyone knows who she was, in particular the family. To that end I have started a book of stories about her and our life together. Many of them are actual stories from my own childhood and some are from her childhood and things that she passed on to me.

Family, I know you think you've heard those stories, but you haven't heard the ones that only I lived. During this retirement period of my life I will be working hard each day to complete this book. I have not chosen a title for it as yet, tied between two titles, but I plan to complete it within in the next few months and get it out to you for your reading pleasure.

So today Grandma, you are the person that I want everyone to know how much I appreciate you having come into my life and made the difference that you did. R.I.P. Janie W. N. Jones....

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Woke up this morning and gave praise to Him for allowing me to see another day. Turned on the "telly" and watched Joel Osteen. His message was about appreciation to people who have given you a hand along the way in some form or other no matter how insignificant they may seem to us. We have all stood on someone else's shoulders to get where we are today. Sometime during this next week, I plan to... give tribute to those person. I them prepared myself for church along with my daughter. We had a wonderful service. Rev Miller took his sermon from 1Samual 17:8-11, "Having a Failure of Nerve". Just like the Israelites were dismayed and terrified of the Philistines after God had allowed them to win war after war, we sometimes have things that we are afraid of over and over! What is your enemy? We need to face them and be not afraid because God has our back; He is greater than anything that can come against us. So after a wonderful service I came home and started a big pot of Turkey soup, old fashion soup! I am going to sit back and relax and enjoy it to the max! I refuse to give in to the "giants" that come my way...look out I've got my slingshot loaded!

Friday, December 9, 2011

Good morning.

Thank God It's Friday! I bet you thought this should have been an easy week for me? Wrong! Right! Six in one hand, half dozen in the other. After checking out my FB status' and chatting a little this morning it came to my attention that people are discussing all types of subjects here. I am gonna add to the mix now. People are asking for prayer for this and prayer for that..., etc. Bottom line we really need serious prayer for many many things. We must also remember that the enemy is really busy. Sometimes he blind sides us with his attack. Sometimes he can get right under your very roof. I feel that way right now. So I'm asking all of you who are praying for this and that to include my house, your house and all houses in your petition to remove the enemy from them. I am gonna keep praying but this is really a God job and I'm gonna turn it over to Him to handle...remember who my Father is and move on this the things at hand.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Good Morning.

Sitting here having my morning brew and checking all of you out brings to mind one of my yesterday experiences.

Had to go to SS Office, walk in take a number, sit down and wait to be called. The place was crowed like they were giving away something. As I sat listening to all the conversations and things going on around me I could hear a young woman talking (loud) to who I thought was her friend and using Ebonics and profanity to the hilt; I could hear what I thought was a middle aged woman talking on her phone behind me, it seemed that this was her time to reach out to all her friends and acquaintances. She was talking about a young woman at her church who had let Satan redirect her, seems she refused to do Praise & Worship on Sunday morning and had issues! There was a man up front a few rows who seemed to be mentally challenged and was talking too loud for the Security Guard who promised to promptly put him out if he didn't shut up. People came in and greeted what appeared to be there friends and this was the usual meeting place. The young woman got agitated that she had not been called and "all these people are coming in after me and being seen" (just the way the cue goes). The Praise & Worship woman actually started singing, out loud, at the prospect of the man up front being threatened with eviction from the room.

As I continued to sit there and wait my turn, I became painfully aware that the world is in a real mess. People are hurting and have very few places to turn for help. I wished that these stuffed shirt government officials could just spend one day in this office alone and walk a mile in these people's shoes before they consider cutting services that is the life line for some of these people.

It also made me painfully aware that God has been good to me and my family. I might not have everything that I want, and I may not be who I want to be, but I am blessed beyond measure and I am a long way along the journey. I will continue to give God the Praise and Honor and continue to pray for the recovery of our country, please join me. Matt 25:40 "to the least of these"!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Good Morning

Woke up this morning with many thoughts as I move forward in this new position. I made my coffee, prepared a cup, and opened my emails and addressed the business there. Finally before getting prepared to leave the house for appointments outside I decided to check here to see what's going on with my friends. So as I scrolled along, I came across this video on Denise's page... (thanks). This being one of my most favorite songs I stopped to listen. What inspiration this has brought to me this morning, because bottom line, we all have to continue to "go on", and some days we don't feel like going on, we feel like sitting down and "being done". I just want to say to each of you that we all need to FEEL LIKE GOING ON because there is a greater prize at the end of the race. I will brush off the cares of the world this morning and keep it moving because with God's help I FEEL LIKE GOING ON every day. These are my words of encouragement to someone today. Have a wonderful day.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Good Morning !

I got up this morning seeking my new direction and as habit would have it, I turned on "the news", however, my TV was still stuck on the Hallmark Channel, lol. Anyway the featured movie was "The Note" which I have seen before, but it hooked me immediately. It's about a person on a plane only having 3 minutes to write a final note to a loved one. A reporter finds it and seeks to find this person to return the note to it's rightful owner. It once again gave me such a warm feeling about the love we have for our families and friends. I am going to video tape and write a note very soon to my FB Family so that I can express verbally how I feel about my life and where it's going right. We need a little more love and personal touches in the world today. I'm gonna do my share to help this cause. Have a great day everyone.

Monday, December 5, 2011

GOOD MORNING .

New day, thank you God for it! New day, don't have a routine yet ! New day, will still praise HIM for this "Interruption" in my life! Nobody Greater!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011