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Seasons

So thankful to have made it through 2021 and through our Covid Christmas season to a brand new year. My word for this year is PEACE and that is basically all I have put on my vision board so far this year and it’s January 27.

I want to hang on to PEACE as long as I can and camp out there a bit. Last year was a year of Marty very close to death with Covid in the hospital, my mom fracturing two bones in her back with a fall, and I even ended up in the ER where I had never been before after a UTI.

We all made it through, and ended the year with Marty and I having Covid for Christmas. So thankful that my mom didn’t get it while she was staying with us, and we sat all the Christmas things out on the porch for our kids to get.

Let’s fast forward to now. I’ve had much of a sabbatical to regroup, relaunch, reinvent, and retreat. I spent a few days thinking all dreams were over and that I was just older now and I could watch the young ones enjoy their dreams. But God! He turned it around.

I think when Marty had to sit all those days in the hospital feeling like he was going down, it was a trauma for him. I kept wanting to fix it all year and wanted to fix my mom’s situation too. I could do a little but my hands were tied in many ways. I had to let them go through whatever they had to go through.

We do have to let others go through whatever they have to go through and deal with whatever they have to deal with. As the year went on some things started falling into place and finally when Marty and I sat in the hospital room getting the monoclonal antibodies I believe Marty got even more healing emotionally, this time he wasn’t alone. This time we were conquering it together. I had no idea that something like that would bring him back to himself, but it has.

Maybe he felt abandoned by God before? Maybe he felt like a failure? I’m not sure, but we definitely have to all remember not to judge what others are going through and remember that we are all in this together. There are no definite answers for any of the madness!

Today I’m feeling more slowed down, more in the moment. Not jumping right in, I am thinking a moment before I say yes. I even had a couple of dreams that took me back to where I used to live and people that I used to know there. It made we call old friends and check on people. I found out many were gone from this earth now.

This gave me a kick in the booty to remember the dreams that are inside of me. I’m still here! I’ve got things to do while I’m here. Marty and I have things to do together! We can’t let distractions and opposition stop that! It’s a new season and time to move forward with all the things that we have learned along the way!

Slowly I’m dreaming again!

If we are still here we can’t stop!

If you need help getting back up let me know!

We ARE all in this together!

There is strength in numbers!

See y’all soon!!

Love, jill 🌸

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The Pause

Well it has hit our home, the dreaded COVID-19. Marty tested positive and I tested negative. Today is the third day that he’s had it and he’s not doing too bad.

His fever is down, he’s still trying to do a few things because everyone said, “Try to stay active.” We are on our third day of quarantine.

How am I doing? Well me being the extrovert person that I am, I instantly canceled a speaking engagement, canceled a hair appointment, canceled two lunch dates, a meeting I was supposed to attend and decided to settle in.

The first day I was a little sad and angry. I just went with that feeling and let myself feel it. Then I decided I may be being a little selfish and started giving more compassion to the one not feeling well.

The second day I asked my great friends from a recovery group (we do a group text everyday) to let me have a phone meeting with them the next night. They all kicked in and started showing the love…They made me cry!

I also got to make a video on my business page about self care and practice what I was saying. I have a checklist that I’m doing everyday. We got a sweet FaceTime from a granddaughter checking on Papa, I got many phone conversations with people that I don’t normally talk to and sorted out some things in my life.

Third day…which is today. Marty still holding fever down, many people letting us know that they love us and checking on us, some even bringing little gifts to us. We are finding out how many people love and care about us.

This has been the theme of my life and I’ve checked into survival mode now. Using all the tools that I’ve been given.

Gratitude is the next one. What do I have to be grateful for?

1. God and my faith.

2. Marty not being severely ill.

3. My mother still being alive and all of our family.

4. So many wonderful friends that love us and care about us.

5. Prosperity and provision.

6. America and the blessings I have had growing up here.

I will keep working on this list.

I have a friend flying in from out of town and we get to talk today.

Let’s always remember to take a pause and remember what we have. It might just help us see things from a different perspective.

Blessings to you today!

Always fight to stay positive!

Never give up!

Have faith, hope, and love always!

You deserve the best of everything!

If you need anything let us know! That is my favorite thing that people keep saying to us!!

See y’all soon!!

🌸jill

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Healing From a Not So Merry Christmas!

As a child I had such wonderful childhood Christmases with my immediate and extended family. I remember going to my grandparents’ house with all my many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

These Christmases lasted on up into my adult years until the time when my father left my mother after forty four years of marriage. I had gone through a divorce also just a few years before. I still remember the Christmas Eve that I had to go visit my father with his new wife and without my mother.

It was hard breaking free from their home to get to my mother’s house and I also had to deliver my two daughters to their father’s house afterwards to see him. So the ideal Christmas was just not happening to me that year.

When I got to my mother’s house she was so upset because I had spent more time with my father and his new wife than her. Then when I took my children to their father’s house he jumped on me for having them longer than he got to have them. I left there in tears, I thought I would never enjoy another Christmas and my world was falling in.

It felt so impossible and out of sorts! Through it all, my faith in Jesus grew stronger and stronger. He was all that I had and I grew closer to Him. He actually used all of the sadness and trauma that happened in those times to equip me to have a life of helping others walk through such things.

He has given me a new husband and family. I now have four children and nine of the most beautiful grandchildren. My life is filled with vibrancy and excitement. My father just recently passed away, September 1, 2020. I had always hoped that my dad would outlive the woman that he married and he did. He even got to come visit me at my knew home and spend time as a family there with my mom joining us also.

I also got this beautiful nativity scene that he had carved and it was so special for me to receive that when I didn’t expect to get anything and really wasn’t expecting it.

So many things have been restored and now I can enjoy my Christmases again. Though my father passed this year, he lived 97 years and was such an amazing WWII Veteran.

Now that I’m older and understand better, it means so much to me that he had a very large part in saving the Jewish people from Hitler. In fact it affected his life and when he left my mother he said, “Blame it on the war!” We didn’t understand what he meant at the time but now that I have been trained in helping others, I do understand, because he was never given any counseling or help after all the trauma that he lived through.

God showed me after my father passed, that just like he helped bring the Jewish people to freedom, that Marty (my husband) and I are bringing many people now to freedom! Freedom from past traumas and disappointments.

He earned many medals and we are now waiting to hear when his funeral service will be held at Arlington Cemetery in Washington D.C.

I’m so grateful to still have my mother that is 93 and I’m so grateful for all of the restoration that my Heavenly Father has given me in my life.

Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

I’m grateful for the life that I’ve been given and the legacy that my past generations have left behind.

I’m grateful for all of the imperfections because they shaped me and made my story to be what it is today.

There is always hope!

Forgiveness and love never fail!

Merry Christmas to you and may you have hope and goodwill!

Reach out to us if you need anything!

Next time jill 🌸

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Destiny Scrolls

There are actual destiny scrolls written in heaven about our purpose and identity here on earth.

“You saw who you created me to be before I became me! Before I’d ever seen the light of day, the number of days you planned for me were already recorded in your book.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139:16‬ ‭TPT‬‬

TPT means The Passion Translation version of the Bible. I love that version because it speaks in simplicity and clarity to me!

At the beginning of the year I have been bringing together a group of women that write out our visions on vision boards! I have learned that this helps bring about a course for our life and makes impossible things actually become possible.

There are many things that happened this year that were totally unpredictable… But God! He’s above everything… He created everything! The ancient words that have been printed still shine through no matter what. Our purpose and destiny still shines through no matter what!

With the end of the year here I’d like to present my latest book that shares how to get to our place of destiny. It may be something to share with someone that you care about so that they may find identity and destiny!

http://Shift Happens: Restored to Bloom https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578604434/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_W3n1FbPV5XA2R?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I have realized just recently how important the information in this book really is. People have lost hope, gotten discouraged, and distracted! But the one that created us and formed us before we were here has not moved! He’s not mad at us, He loves us!

There are many people sitting with messages and voices that need to be heard in the earth. That can be frustrating! Your voice and purpose needs to be released!

We would love to do a call with you to help you find your divine destiny on earth! There may be people waiting to hear your message and voice! The cost is FREE!

It is time for your voice to be heard!

It is never too late!

You are qualified!

You have permission!

We will help you!

Love and hugs!

jill 🌸