Category: Self Help

I just want to share some thoughts today about how I came to thinking about a New Wineskin. First of all I feel like 2020 has been a year of transition and change for us. I haven’t been sure to even know what to write about sometimes.

The other morning, the day after we got tested for Covid and had talked to several people that we know, that are suffering through Covid. I finally sat down and started digging deep into what my feelings were. I knew I needed to do that before I could write again.

We also at the very first week of Covid had bought a used car and had nothing but trouble with it starting a few months after we bought it. Marty had always bought and sold used cars and had never ran into anything like this, that was simply impossible to come up with a solution.

There are some things that man cannot repair… only God can. We started seeing that it is the same place that our nation seems to be right now. We took the car on a vacation to see our granddaughter we had not got to see after her birth, because of the pandemic, and the auto started acting up before we got to my brother’s house in Kentucky.

My nephew and Marty did many things to this car that would normally fix it, to no avail. We brought the car back home 4 hours, traded for our truck, and took off down to Southern Fla.

Marty had been a mechanic all of his life and had some of his friends where he had retired check it out only to come to terms with the fact that it needed a new engine which means big dollar signs.

Marty called the place where we got the car and found out that we could trade it back and get a different car. That was wonderful but it did cost us more money, it wasn’t a free trade.

I have learned in my life that:

I have to say that usually I have learned many, many things this way in life.

What we were basically looking for in the beginning was a three seat car to have room to take people places. We drove this car and were loving it and enjoying it until it started doing exactly the same thing that the other was doing. We took it to the car dealer and they did a few things and sent it home and two days later it died on the road. We had to have it towed back to the place and we were told the same thing, “Needs a new engine.”

Marty knows enough about cars that he went and looked at it. He felt like it wasn’t beyond repair so we had some people that we know tow it to their shop to look at it. They sent us a pic of the problem and we saw how impossible and how much work it would take to fix it.

During this process God started working in our hearts. We realized how hurting our world is. How impossible some people’s situations are. How we don’t even know what each other are going through because if we tell someone they try to blame us like it’s something stupid that we did to cause it.

That’s the day that I put this on Facebook:

I knew that our Heavenly Father was birthing brand new mindsets into us. It really doesn’t matter to me any more what someone else’s life speaks to them. This is what MY life is speaking to me. Someone else can analyze what we just walked through however they want but I don’t hear the voice of a stranger I hear the voice of my Father.

Each one of us have our own unique voice and purpose in this earth. We can’t get all caught up in other’s dreams and destinies and lose our own. We can learn things from people but the final say so is up to God.

We are still in the middle of the pandemic, of this auto situation, and the things going on in our nation. But I am going to learn exactly the lessons that I am supposed to learn, walk exactly where I am supposed to walk, and do exactly what I am supposed to do.

If you are in an impossible situation right now, please reach out. We can help you find answers and your purpose. I don’t want any dollars, my livelihood does not come from you. That is the biggest lesson that I learned many, many years ago.

With God, impossible things are made possible!

He makes a road in the wilderness, seriously!

He can tear down any lie.

There is always HOPE!!

See you soon!

Love you. ~jill~🌸

Yesterday I had to get labs at my doctor, a routine checkup. As I drove into town it just felt a little different. I hadn’t been able to explain the feeling that crept up every once in a while with the pandemic but I think the word could be “homesick.”

I pull up at the doc to get greeted outside and temperature taken with a questionnaire of my life. I go into the office to find all the chairs gone and a long table stretched across the room with masks, hand sanitizer and such laid out.

It started feeling a little eery to me. I began wondering if it would ever go back to the days where I would go in and sit in the waiting room and just see all the different people coming in for appointments.

I made it through the labs although now they take my credit card before they took the blood tests. Why? That was just different too?

I hadn’t been to Sally’s Beauty Supply since before the pandemic, I had just been ordering things but I needed a few things quickly. The window had been broken by a few stragglers after the protest in the town. There was a mural painted on the window and all the clippers were gone and the order they made months ago had not arrived yet.

Many things were no longer on the shelves because of slow orders. But I did get to get a few things I had really been needing and wanting. Got to chat with the young girl working in there and she was feeling similar to me. I was glad to have some conversation with her.

I then passed the new Home Goods store that has just come to town before the pandemic shut everything down. I just had to put my mask on and go in. Hardly anyone else in the store. Somehow I felt blessed to even be in there getting a few things, like I wouldn’t get to again.

I had to fast in the morning before my labs so I was excited to get out and go eat lunch. There wasn’t anyone available to join me so I thought I’d drive through and go park someplace and eat.

First I went to Fazoli’s… no the line was way too long. I then decided on Panda Express. Not as many choices but I found something I liked. I made sure and asked if I had a fork…”yes,” she said.

Sure enough I pulled in to a shady parking lot and no fork. Chinese food with no fork? I managed to get the lid off of one of the containers and ate with that, I felt like I was on the movie Castaway. Maybe I’m being a tad dramatic.

What helped me put it all into perfect perspective was when I got home and someone asked if we could help someone that had their perfect suicide plan, planned out. We were asked if we could help. “Yes we will see her soon!”

This made me see how grateful I am that I have had only one day like this, not every day like this. I am able to sort it out. I am able to know that even if things don’t go back like they were, I will be ok.

My life is not really about me or about things. It’s about helping others. It’s about living the call that came from my Heavenly Father to help others get free. It’s about helping others get healed. That’s the thing that brings me the most joy and fulfillment and I’m grateful that for right now that has not been taken away.

What do you think you were put on this earth for? There is a reason and a purpose! If you need help I can work with you to find it. I’m not wanting money– it’s free.

Contact me if you need to!

There are good things for us!

Don’t let the sad days overtake you!

Life is still good!

One day at a time!

““Afflicted city, storm-battered, unpitied: I’m about to rebuild you with stones of turquoise, Lay your foundations with sapphires, construct your towers with rubies, Your gates with jewels, and all your walls with precious stones. All your children will have GOD for their teacher— what a mentor for your children! You’ll be built solid, grounded in righteousness, far from any trouble—nothing to fear! far from terror—it won’t even come close! If anyone attacks you, don’t for a moment suppose that I sent them, And if any should attack, nothing will come of it. I create the blacksmith who fires up his forge and makes a weapon designed to kill. I also create the destroyer— but no weapon that can hurt you has ever been forged. Any accuser who takes you to court will be dismissed as a liar. This is what GOD ’s servants can expect. I’ll see to it that everything works out for the best.” GOD ’s Decree.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭54:11-17‬ ‭MSG‬‬

This is my scripture for these times!

Have a blessed day and I will talk to you soon!

Im going to stay in a hotel and swim with my grandkids tonight!

Take care and be safe!

~Jill~🌸

In life many times we need a paradigm shift to happen to change everything around and let us stop, make adjustments that we need, and get on the right path.

The pandemic was one of those such things but two nights ago things shifted even more intense for us. We found ourselves at 10:30 at night running two shop vacs and sucking the water out of our house. It reminded me of scenes from the “Titanic” movie.

My husband even had to go out into the pouring rain with his tractor and dig a little ditch to drain the water away from the house. There was actually a moment where a foot of water was standing on part of the outside of our house.

We managed to keep it from running past three rooms and my closet. After we got it all stopped and dried up we put the fans on it in different places.

So the next day I’m thinking, “What do I need to glean from this?” As I pondered, I realized that the only damage that really occurred was in my hair salon and my closet! We managed to pile up towels and keep it from going to the other side of the house.

I realized after I came home from our trip things just seemed out of alignment. Our car was in the shop, my daughter’s car was in the shop, and I had loads of people contacting me to get in for haircuts.

My daughter was needing me to step up and help with her children one more day a week. My mother that is 92 was needing me to take her to appointments and pick up groceries because the lady at her assisted living was not able to do it anymore.

We were starting our new mission in our Healing House. We knew that we were supposed to finish the upstairs to live up there and turn our whole main floor into our mission and our dream. There were so many things going on when we got home we couldn’t get started with the work.

I am in a course for 2020 with Terri Savelle Foy and I had received this in my texts on Wednesday (the day that the floods happened that night):

When I got this I had four kids at my house and I can’t tell you how many people were contacting me for haircuts to the point I was starting to feel like I was going to explode.

I will tell you that after the water ran through and I got to the end of myself I realized my priorities. God first, my husband next, my family next and then the mission that He’s given us. There was a time that doing hair was my mission but that has changed now.

I instantly texted someone I knew that does hair and asked her if I could send her my clients and she said, “Yes.” I could feel relief coming off my back as I let go of what I wasn’t supposed to be doing in this season.

It was time. It is a new season! It was time to move forward in tearing down and rebuilding. I’ve had things show up like this time and time again. Showing me the path and the right stones to step on. My Heavenly Father showing me the way to go!

Time for the focus in life to SHIFT!

Do you have things that you need to SHIFT?

Do you understand SHIFT?

Are you ready to let go of some past things that don’t need to go into today?

Contact me if you need direction and help doing this!

You can do it!

See you soon!

~jill 🌸

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