Updates!

Update number 1:



I am currently restricted to a diet of pudding, jell-o, rainbow sherbet, and hydro-codone.

:)

Explanation: Tonsillectomy!

On 12-12-07, I went under the knife. Everything went very well - it was only a 45-minute surgery - and I came home that first day.

Yesterday, one of my best friends and her fiance came over and we watched movies. They brought pizza and I ate soup. :)

I'm doing pretty well today... the pain meds are helping a lot!

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Update number 2:


I've been accepted into the architecture program at California Polytechnic University! I'll be moving next fall to San Luis Obispo where I'll reside for five or six years working on my Bachelors in Architecture degree.

I am EXTREMELY excited!

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Update number 3:


Before I got my tonsils out, my sister and I went to see "August Rush"... It was a fabulous movie. I definitely recommend it! It was all about music and connection... great, great movie.

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Update number 4:

I'm finished with my Christmas shopping! I really like Christmas shopping, so I'm sad that it's over, but I still get to wrap and make cards.

:)

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Update number 5:


I officially love Gilmore Girls! My daddy totally fell in love with the show too. He just went out and bought all seven seasons to bless his women. Stud.

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That's the new stuff!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All!

- Jess <><

Autumn

The Price of Kindness

Today, I was driving from Pasco towards Kennewick. I was still deciding whether or not to go home for food, when God prompted me to get off at Court Street. I received a Holy Spirit inkling to get food at the red roofed building to my right. It happened to be a Carl's Junior. I was wondering how I would pay for my food, so I got out my wallet thinking God might have divinely provided some money. :) I thought maybe I would have enough change to buy something small. I rifled through my change and my only silver pieces were four dimes and one nickel. I left open the possibility that someone might pay for me, or I would just use my debit card.

I walked in the Exxon/Carl's Junior and had an friendly interaction with an older man. He was probably in his mid-50s and looked a bit walled off. I told him to please go before me because I wasn't sure what I was going to order yet. So he did, and as he was paying, he needed a nickel. He started searching for a nickel, and I piped up, "I've got a nickel." He gave the cashier a quarter he had just found, but turned and looked at me and said something like, "That's the nicest thing somebody has done for me in a long time," and the cashier said, "Yes, that was sweet."

I offered a nickel.

When I went out to my car with my food, the man was just leaving and asked if I lived in Pasco. I looked a bit puzzled and he reassured me he was not trying to pick me up... :) I told him no, I didn't. He continued... "Oh, I was going to say, if you lived in Pasco, I would give you a chance." I didn't understand, so I told him that. He further explained, "I'm an electricity guy, I'd give you a chance to pay before I shut your power off."

Wow.

I am still in awe that such a simple act of kindness would illicit such a response. It's amazing!

God's kingdom works that way.

Jesus healed people, inside and out, and they pledged their lives to His cause.

William Wallace freed people, inside and out, and they willingly followed him - even unto death.

Just a word, just a hug, just a nickel.

And people's lives can be changed.

I love the God we serve.

In Him,
- Jess <><

Woman

"Your mercy reigns
Your mercy comes
Your mercy falls

It rises with the sun."

- Shane and Shane


Such a redemption song. My heart just cries, laughs - comes alive - when this song plays.

It's talking about a girl who can't believe the King would want to see her form or hear her voice.


"Your voice is sweet,
Your form is lovely!"


My heart just breaks for the women of this earth who don't see their value - their priceless worth. Woman is so beautiful.



This revelation makes me want to battle for and with women. Stand side by side, and approach the throne with boldness.




The enemy has taken so much... drawn a curtain of grey and dreary over the lives of so many women.

I just want to cry out the truth that denounces the lies:

You are BEAUTIFUL! Your Father is good and He loves you with a fiery passionate love. Nothing can separate you from the love of your Father.


You are made in His image. You reflect His goodness, mercy, mystery, freedom, beauty.

Father, increase my heart for women. I just want to serve you, Dad. You know my heart and the hearts of each woman I encounter everyday.

Daddy, give me wisdom, your words, and peace.

I love you,

- Jess <><
Forever Yours

Man - Woman: POWER

"He's my other half."

"We're like two puzzle-pieces."

"We complete eachother."


We hear these phrases often when two people are in love. They feel more complete - like what seemed to be missing is now present.

I think it feels this way because men and women have different roles to play and they each speak of different characteristics of God, the Creator.

I believe God set it up this way for a purpose... that this completion of person speaks of a universal truth. God started it in the very beginning.

Genesis 1:27 - "So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them."

He created male and female each in His image. Aspects of GOD portrayed in each one.

Men and women each embody different facets of God's character. Then, when a man and a woman come together as one, a more complete picture of the Creator is displayed.

A man brings strength, wisdom, and leadership.

A woman represents beauty, mystery, tenderness, mercy.

Though I have yet to personally experience it, because I know God, I can say this.

This is the Power of Intimacy -

Man and Woman - each reflecting God's image - come together as one. This united team is unstoppable.