Donna Jackson
Exhale!
What’s your mood today? Happy? Content? Frustrated? Sad? If life is going your way you probably feel pretty good. The sun is shining in your world and your face wears a big ‘ol grin. You take deep breaths, point your smiling face to the sky and fling your arms out wide. Some of you, however, […]
Thanksgiving Color
The colors of the leaves, the temperature and the crispness of the air make fall my favorite time of year. Maybe that’s what helps make Thanksgiving my favorite holiday. With Thanksgiving you get all the food, family and fun of Christmas without all the stress of selecting, purchasing and wrapping gifts. Thanksgiving gives us a […]
A Little Help Please
Excuse this end-of-the-week post, but I need your help. If you received this post by email, please send me a simple little “got it” in the Leave a Reply section below. I think some of you may still be getting this without your subscription showing up on my end. Thank you for your patience and while I’m here I might […]
Our Very Best Friend
One of my dear friends celebrates her birthday today. Being one year and one week younger gives her plenty of room to poke fun. Our birthday “season” got me thinking about how blessed I am to have friends who love me and add color to my life. Good friends encourage us to be better and […]
An ti ci pa tion
Friday afternoon I became the proud owner of my late grandfather’s Bible. It’s special to me because he made notes in the margins and underlined things important to him. Sunday, I carried it with me to Bible class. As I flipped to a passage, a hand-written note caught my eye. I rotated the book so […]
Catapult Your Life
This morning water surges through streets, elevator shafts, train stations and all manner of places it was never meant to go. Hurricane Sandy struck with a vengeance and keeps hammering the mid-Atlantic coast. No doubt the next few days will produce many unlikely heroes – ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their fellow man. As […]
Become a Temple Sweeper
This has been a tie-a-knot-and-hang-on kind of week. But, it’s been a very good week. I have learned I am much better suited to write a book than to market one. To those of you who do that sort of thing for a living – I am so impressed! Since it’s been one of those […]
Just a Bite
If life’s a kitchen, then God lovingly acts as master chef, turning our stale ingredients into tasty morsels. He sweetens every bite with grace to create a feast we’re meant to share with the world. He continues to take the rancid things Satan tries to slip into my pot and turns them into things that make me stronger. That’s what Temple […]
Walk This Way
Saturday afternoon we zigged, then zagged our way through the after-game crowd surrounding the stadium. Like always, my eyes scanned the crowd looking for familiar faces that might not be all that familiar anymore. Suddenly, like a heat seeking missile locked on a target, my eyes fixed on a woman walking toward us. There was […]
It’s Almost Time!
Ring the bells! Blow the horns! Throw the streamers! There’s a new baby on the way! The growth process for my book, Temple Sweepers: Motivation for a Healthy Body and Soul, has taken much longer than nine months, but it has finally made it to the delivery room. That magical process of turning digital strokes […]
