Nearly everything I learned from my mother, I learned from watching her live; observing how she interacted with and treated others. Occasionally, I missed a lesson and took my cues from how people treated her – dismissively, disrespectfully or abusively. When I responded to them in kind, mom would rebuke me with a great deal of irritation….
Author Archives: LaShawnda Jones
Your Life is Your Ministry
I’m sure you’ve heard many variations of this theme [why do today what you can do tomorrow]. And to all of those excuses and the ones waiting to be spoken, I say – Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation. (2 Corinthians 6:2). So… just do it!
I AM HE
I’ve come to realize that no man can live up the ideal husband that’s been given to me as a vision… as a heart longing. No man living in the flesh can be all that God calls him to become.
Who Are You Building For?
When you dedicate yourself – your life – to God, when you submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and lean on the teachings of Jesus Christ everything you do is imbued with His essence. Everything. You don’t have to draw attention to yourself, however people will be drawn to you – not because of who you are but because of whose you are
Italy, Spring 2011
Interview w/Vanessa Richardson of The Certain Ones Blog Radio Show
Vanessa Richardson of The Certain Ones radio show interview LaShawnda Jones, author of The Process of Asking for, Giving And Receiving Love & Forgiveness and My God and Me: Listening, Learning and Growing on My Journey. Listen to internet radio with the certain ones on Blog Talk Radio
The Zechariah Complex
But as we all know, Zechariah did come through, he did have what it takes, he did rise to the challenge. For after all, all Zechariah really had to do was show up. It was God’s plan and God’s work.
Things Charlie Sheen Has Taught Me
Pop Culture vs. The Bible: Things Charlie Sheen Has Taught Me 1. Never underestimate the redemptive power of full-time staff writers 2. Getting off-script can destroy your life 3. Self-idolization is just as destructive (if not more so) than idolizing others 4. Self-delusion impedes good judgment 5. Money and fame deludes one into thinking theyContinueContinue reading “Things Charlie Sheen Has Taught Me”
Some Thoughts on Challenges
I believe the challenges we face in our lives are all the same (source or nature) at ages 30 and 60 as they were at 3 and 6. We just process them differently and learn from different elements of the challenge.
Prejudice Against Emotion
While the pulpit and the church people are decrying emotion and cultivating a frigid intellectual life, the theater is playing on the emotional life of the people, and they have the crowds and the money to support them.
In this we are confronted by a fact we cannot down – it stares us in the face and will not go at our bidding, viz.: God gave man an emotional nature, and for wise and holy purposes. If we seek to destroy that nature, then we destroy the man as God made him, and we can but expect that he will dedicate his life to other ends than that for which he was created.
Harvest Life 