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Love Until it Hurts!

Good Morning All,


What a beautiful Friday morning this is! Today is the beginning of a new day where all things are new and shining. 

"The future starts today, not tomorrow"  ( Pope John Paul II )

This happens to be my first day at my "BIG GIRL JOB" woo hoo! God has granted me the ability to move to New York and learn and be changed and transformed into more of His likeness, as well as bless me with the provision of a job that is wonderful and that I love!

I want you to each know that you are loved by God and that He has given you a divine calling to hope in the One who is true, noble, and valuable. He loves you and loves loving you in beautiful and romantic ways. One way I believe God loves us is by giving us a hope that is beyond what our human bodies can handle.

"Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything"  ( Catherine Marshall )

I want you to think deeply of the people you love in your life. I have to dedicate this next one, not only for you, but to a few of my dearest friends. Best friends are the sisters God gives us as the breathe of fresh air, the laughter to our jokes, the hope for the doubting, the cheers for the success, and the life to our days. Friends give you a hope in yourself and in the world that is a love that is beyond anything but Godly. God granted us a life of love, joy, and peace. All of these are within the loving boundaries of friendship.


Holly Bancroft, Laurie Martino, Kendall Crosson, Michelle Dean, Ashton Paredez, Jordan Kirkpatrick, Ramzy Coleman, Samantha Berry, and many many more are amazing women of God who love the Lord and who strive to be better than they were the day before. They make me a better person just by knowing them. I have had the pleasure of meeting so many more amazing women of God here in New York who have shown me the true joy of loving the Lord well and hoping for what is to come. I love these girls with all of my heart, and there is a rare gem in these women that God has cut and shaped for all the world to see. They shine with love, joy, and hope. 


They have all loved me well in times of struggle, and in times of hope and new beginnings. I don't get to see all these women as much as I used to, and that is just life as we know it for now. For forever they will hold a dear and special place in my heart that no one can replace or take away. God gives us this love for the joy of knowing friendship, when you understand friendship, you understand God better. 


I want you to know something,

"God gave us a life of love, joy, and beauty in the lives of friends. He gave you to women that you call sisters to encourage you, uplift you, and hold you when you can't hold yourself. God is our best friend and He loves us so much that He gives us an image of Himself in the friends around us. God loves you and desires you to love others well. Love because you were loved and because God loves to lavish His love on you, through you, around you, and for you. Love because God first loved you. God's love is beyond the realms of what we can fathom, but we are not incapable of loving as much as He loves, or at least trying. Love because you can not because you feel you "have to." Love is a gift that is given and received without question from God, so don't question the love from or for others. He has called you to love, so love out of your heart and watch as the wellspring of life is overwhelmed with the joy of the Lord. Lord God Almighty is love. Love because you Love Him. You are the called, the chosen, and the beautiful. The righteous walk and hope in love, and the wicked run away from love for fear of the light that shines when love is apart of all you do. So let the wicked run, and let the righteous dance in the light." 

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Mother Teresa

Love until it hurts my friends! God loves you today, always, and forever and... so do I!

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Love being Loved

It's that time of the year when the stores begin stocking red, pink, and a bit of white! It's that time of the year when I will be attending/participating in one of my best friends wedding this weekend and many more throughout the year! It's also happens to be that time of my life when my Facebook sees more engagements, marriages, and new relationships than the Lifetime channel. :)

I say all this to begin a blog series about certain people in my life that have impacted and inspired me and given me a joy and love that is deeper than any ocean. Some of these people are still in my life and some have since passed their season of love, but that doesn't gleam them any less of important.

I thank the Lord for the grace to admit that I can't always understand these relationships, but that these relationships give my life understanding. 

Love is a very beautiful and important feeling, emotion, and part of life. It deems to me to be more important than most things we strive for on a daily basis. If the men and women I passed everyday on the streets of NYC would strive more to improve the love they have for their husbands/wives and families than the striving they did for the next dollar, this world might see less divorces and more marriages.

My heart yearns for a love that is perfectly imperfect, beautifully 

spectacular, and gracefully abundant. 

First and foremost, with my relationship with the creator of Love. He has given me a love that is rooted so deep that nobody can take away from me. He's the one who holds me when the tears fall, chuckles at me when my laughter is so loud and boisterous people are staring, and the one who promises to fulfill the desires of my heart that He only knows. Its the man on the Cross who loved deeper, better, and more perfectly than any of us could ever strive to do. I pray for this love, but more than this I am grateful that I am loved like this. 

Second, my mother. This women will be the first person I recognize on this blog series. She's the women who gave birth to me, raised me to be the woman I am, and who has sacrificed far more than I will ever know or understand. She clings to the truth of our Savior and holds fast to the promise of kindness, gentleness, and abundant patience. She's not only a teacher or mother, shes my best friend, my advice giver, my listener, and the one who will always hold the dearest place in my heart. She's the rare gem I was born from and I am blessed to be loved like this. 

It's the story of love, life, and the pursuit of learning more and more about it everyday. I want each of you to know you are loved, adored, and favored. I pray you thank the Lord for the people in your life that you love and who love you.

Love is beautifully, spectacularly perfect. We are the imperfect ones who can change and alter the effects and conditions of it all; don't be the one striving for the things that don't last, cling to love. 

I love being loved like this, I pray you are too...

Joy in the Unknown

Good Morning All,

I know that most of you are still at home with family and friends, or even traveling to amazing destinations! I was so blessed to be able to go home for Christmas this year and spend an amazing time catching up with my family and adopted families.

I bring you this blog today to give you the encouraging words that God has called me to give. I know that some of you are coming into a new season of new desires, new changes, new beginnings, and new hardships. So I bring you this word to encourage you to see beyond the distance and bring into perspective the act of Christ in your life! God gives us the gift of joy, not happiness, to sustain us through the toughest of times and the happiest of days. Happiness is fleeting, but joy is sustaining. No matter the season you are coming into, come and know that the God of the Universe created this day to be a special day in your life. I know that many days don't make sense in my life or circumstances don't add up and I wonder how in the heck will I ever see past this pain, hardship, or hurt. I want to encourage you that there is a light, there is a beacon of joy that surpasses every new season of your life! I come because I was called to speak even if no one will listen, I have been called to speak to you today!

This may not make sense to you today or even tomorrow, but I promise you if you are reading this, God has wooed you to Himself and He will surely answer you when you call and open the door when you knock.

"My sons and daughters, you have been called according to the great purposes of my Kingdom. Many of you struggle with letting go for fear of not having anything once you let go. Many of you struggle of letting go because you fear you will not be held once you let go. Both of these are lies from the enemy. You will always have me to hold onto and I will always be holding onto you! I come to you today and give you the word of joy to be ever surpassing over whatever circumstance you are walking in. I will forever sustain you through the coming days and I give you this life so that you may be a witness for the ones who need me more than even you. My sons and daughters, do not fear but rejoice for the God of the Universe has called you, summoned you, to stand up, and walk ahead. I will prepare the steps and lay before you the path that I have called you to walk, but you must get up and let go of whatever is holding you back. Let go of that relationship that is holding you back from experiencing true love in my name, let go of that stronghold that forever entangles you to seek the world over the Word, let go of that burden that you carry from when you were younger that continually steals from the joy of today, and please let go of the lies that you continue to believe from the enemy that you won't make it or you can't do it until ...... is done. I come to you today to speak to you in joy, in hope, and in reassurance that you are being lead to let go and fall into my arms. Although the unknown seems dark and scary, the actuality is that what now bounds you is the dark and scary and the unknown is the light and joy of the Kingdom. Come my sons and daughters, do not fear, but rejoice, for the God of the Universe has brought you here, in this time, in this place, for a reason. Stand up and walk and let My joy overwhelm you and captivate you."

My brothers and sisters, I am overwhelmed that the God of the Universe would come and share with us such simple but pure loving knowledge. I pray for your hearts and I will be praying that whoever reads this would take a stand and be lead to make a change. Do not fear but rejoice for God has you and know that He is all you need. He is all we need.

"For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the Kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." Colossians 1:13

Just Talking...

Hello All,

I was reading through Facebook, just like every other day, and came across this article on one of my friends pages...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yashar-hedayat/a-message-to-women-from-a_1_b_958859.html

This article is a must read for a guy and girl. I wouldn't say it was the highest priority, but I would deem it has more relevence in today's society than most other books and articles.

I love to encourage and uplift women and to lead them to the beautiful realization that Christ is wonderful and is fully able to satisfy their every desire and longing.

With that being said, the point of this blog entry is to relate a point and a realzation on my part! God created us women to be loved and adored and be wooed and pursued. I believe with my whole heart that one day God will bring a man into my life that, without much doing on my part, will love me despite my flaws. The problem with today's society is that many men are too scared to realize the importance of being honest with themselves and owning up to their own. So then they place "emotional manipulation" on the hearts of their friends, girlfriends, and/or wives. I read this article and was appalled that none of this had occured to me sooner. Because even I have thought to the point of "It has to be me, I'm the crazy one..." After many fights with the opposite sex on issues revolving around who did what and what that meant, I realize that I was right and I wasn't crazy.

This is not a feminist blog in no means, and I am compleltey aware of the flaws and mishaps of us women, but there has to be a point when men in my generation learn to stand up and not coward out.

"It's a whole lot easier to emotionally manipulate someone who has been conditioned by our society to accept it. We continue to burden women because they don't refuse our burdens as easily. It's the ultimate cowardice."

Although I have many amazing guy friends in my life, because I know some might read this, I do feel that "most" young men do not realize or even want to understand the heart and sensitivty of a women's heart. It is crazy to me that the same things that attracts a man to a women are the same things he will manipulate.

Disclosure from all of this is that I know that ALL men are not this way and I know that ALL women are not manipulated. I am going off of the notion of secular society and thought I would generate my point into all of this!

I just want to encourage young men, as I lift this up in prayer as well, to appreciate the women in your life and honor them with integrity and respect. And women, understand that every guy is not going to be your prince charming and do not hold them to that expectation. For all men and women, let God be your constant and know that through His truth and guidance all of this will become substantially easier!

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The Light of a Tree

Hello My Fellow Bloggers, Readers, Hopeful Friends,

I want you all to know that God is great, beautiful, marvelous, and just absolutely moving! I am in awe of how He continually takes care of me when I don't think I can take much more!

I am going through a season of change, hope, joy, sorrow, and fulfillment. I know that God is changing my life, giving me hope for tomorrow, allowing joy to come through the sorrow of letting go, and fulfilling more dreams than even I can see! 

Last night I was able to attend the Christmas at Rockefeller here in NY. It was beautiful, freezing, but beautiful. To see so many people, close to half of a million, gathered around this, "tree!"

Can you believe it, it really is just a tree with lights, isn't it? 

The Holy Spirit brought to mind this morning a similar story about a tree with not lights, but one Light. I thought about it and it dawned on a me why the questions seem so similar...

Can you believe it, it really is just a man on a cross, isn't it?

These trees were different, these lights were also different. One tree gives us a beautiful Christmas decoration, the other was cut and sawed to gave us life. One set of lights gives us the spectrum of the rainbow, the other gives us the hope of tomorrow. One tree gave half of a million people the chance to gather with friends and family to sing Christmas carols, the other gave billions of people the chance at redemption and the chance to see family and friends on the other side.

There are many points in my life that I will remember certain thoughts and events, but I have to say last night is one of the top five. Surrounded by people who are looking at a tree with lights searching for hope and love and some not knowing that it was a tree and a Light that was nailed and sacrificed a long time ago that gives them hope and love today.

Although not everyone there was a believer, although I know God can do hope one day, I do know that everyone yearned for the a bigger Light.

I pray that we all know that its not just a tree and multicolored lights that gives us hope and joy, it's the tree that was cut down, shaped like a cross, and nailed over 2000 years ago that brings us true Light to this world.

I pray for all of us that we see the true Light of this Christmas season.

Joy, Peace, and Love to you and yours!

Growth in the Cafeteria

Good Morning All,

I hope you are all doing fine this lovely Friday morning. I am in a particularly GREAT mood because I fly back to Texas today for the week and it is always a joy to see family and friends.

I am writing just a short blog this morning to encourage you and to praise the God who is great and merciful. This morning while eating breakfast in the cafeteria of my women's dorm in NYC I was amazed. This same cafeteria was the same cafeteria I sat just 3 months ago wondering how I would ever make it.

You may be saying "Oh Jess...dramatic, much?" Although you might be right and I could honestly agree with you, well now. But then, I thought my world would never be at peace again. I thought the agony of walking away from the friends, family, church, and life I had in Denton could never be the same or replaced by a strange and crazy city.

Are there times in your life when you just can't see past your circumstance?

I am writing this because God knows you and I both need to be reminded that you are not alone. You have been given a purpose and a calling and you have been sent according to HIS purposes and for HIS will to be done. I spend hours thinking I might miss out on what God is sending me into, all the while He knows that His plan cannot be messed up. HE KNOWS.

So I encourage you, although times may have been or are tough, thank God for the grace and mercy that He still knows you. May it give you a peace to know that although the world may seem strange and crazy some days/weeks/months, the God of your heart is never strange or crazy, He is known and peaceful. 

May we be reminded to rely on the known and peaceful.

This was my growth in the cafeteria, although the growth in my heart is proving to be much more appealing :)

Have an amazing Thanksgiving and may you be thankful for your friends, family, and the beautiful place you call your temporary home!

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