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.
Author Archives: LaShawnda Jones
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.
Star Trek’s Final Frontier
True seekers – true voyagers – will always discover the True Source. They will come into contact with God and be awed even by their simple comprehension of all that He is.
A Personal Relationship with God is Paramount
I have come to an uncomfortable realization that community – though it is an instruction and goal for God’s people to assemble themselves – community does very little good for the spiritually hungry. If you are seeking God’s word, His will, His guidance, an understanding of who He is and who you are – go straight to His Word. If you’re depending on other people to tell you about God, you’ve already missed Him.
Harvest Life 