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Absolutely beautiful words and spirit💗 I wish we were neighbors so we could sit and chat without an algorithim bringing your words to me, but thank you for sharing💗
Sister burdens always come out of tragedy. God is is through you. Your speaking will speak to others that need a sounding board to make a transformation.
I just try to be a better Human than I was yesterday and to be patient with others .The most important thing is to listen , I have met the most interesting Humans you can imagine some of them with heartbreaking stories (and usually over a lovely cup of tea ) while Having a break form setting up a community garden 🪴( we do like a lovely cuppa in the uk ) if we could all just be a better Human than we were yesterday. What a beautiful world it would be . It’s a hard journey but I’m a very stubborn Woman . Thank you so much for your words ❤
Your words make such an impact. I felt, while listening to you, that God was holding your hand and guiding you.
Thank you once again for your words of encouragement. I can see how Jesus is working through you. I also believe that our words are powerful because we are created in His image. I pray that more and more of us will be careful with our words and bless rather than curse.
I love listening to you! I’m 62 and have been following you since 2019. I’ve learned so much from you and have been blessed and lifted up by your kind words. Thank you for sharing your journey and heart with us!
Thank you Jess…❤
It's pretty sad that this is what it takes to comes to Jesus.
I love your heart Jess❤
I like your non opinionated show. It is my place away from the world of opinions.
GUUURL Yes!
Thank you so much for just being you. Can't speak for others, but you have helped keep me grounded in these crazy times. ❤
Yes yes yes. Thank you because you put in words how i was feeling.
Love is how I feel all things could be fixed.. myself I am no longer a religious person. I feel that all I do has affect on others and the world around me. Why I love to garden. I know if I grow in abundance, I feed more than just my family. I don’t ever want to make light of death or gun violence or war.. unfortunately in our country it just seems everyone’s become so numb because their voices are not being heard. It fails to break my heart when my child has to do lock down drills. Hurts to see people work so hard to stop people in power doing so much harm to others get away with it.. Speaking of unjust things that are not happing in our own backyard is criticized.. I feel that most people lost faith in things can get better. I do hope every day that things well get better. Thank you for speaking from your heart. Your post always make me happy because you are very forgiving.. On things don’t need to be perfect.. with cooking or with our gardens.
I sure do love you it’s hard to watch your devotionals I cry every time you always touch that inner me I want to hide people are cruel but I understand the positive person you are I also see the glass half full things can always get better and I just push through the hard times because I know things will improve I BLESS YOU DOES ANYBODY EVER WISH THAT BACK AT YOU ??❤❤❤❤❤
Very well said Jess. Thank you for your input and sharing the Word. Imagine if you will, life before the internet. That was my life in my 20s in the 1970s. It was me and God and mother nature. We went back to the land and touched bases with like neighbors, who lived many acres away. We got together when we could, shared knowledge and help and meals and prayers. If I could choose any decade it would be living rural in the 1970s, Not because I was young. That was great, but because the lifestyle was community and mother earth. Take heart, we are still cultivating THAT lifestyle today in rural New Hampshire. Our area is fostering many local programs that reach out to help one another. One Is Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners. They hosted a " Tray it Forward" program through Colby Sawyer Collage and Cornell to get trays of seedlings into peoples hands in order to promote back yard gardenting. I received two large trays because I had been recovering from surgery and had only started tomato seedlings. They literally got my 2024 kitchen garden underway and I was grateful. So Jess, it is happening and I for one hear you loud and clear and yes we need to bear fruit of the spirit . I intend to " pay it forward" when I can ~ Diane
Thank you so much for sharing from your heart! ❤
Thank you for refusing to buckle to the pressure of making a stand to political stances because in reality it's quite selfish and they only want their issue to be addressed… if you actually look deeper into their beliefs and convictions.. you will fix. That they don't care about anything or anyone else! I come here for gardening and how it's contributed to good mental wellbeing and as an output that outweighs anything else out there!!
You have touched my very soul, thank you and I BLESS YOU!
"The earth may be in crisis, but we don't have to be." That one will live with me for awhile. It might just be my feed of which I follow gardening, mental health and random artwork, but I also see change coming for the better. There is so much wrong in the world but I know that I can continue to do the right thing. I can continue to look at myself and see what needs to be changed within. And in living that truth, the world can be a better place. Thank you for your words, as always