Stephanie Jackson’s Blog
After recent travels, I have been home for three weeks. In those three weeks, I have not had a single day that didn’t belong to someone else. I was running children, fulfilling tailoring and quilting contracts, teaching leadership courses, participating in workshops and doing all of the normal wife and mother things that wives and mothers …
Have you ever heard a catch phrase and sort of understood the spirit of it but not really taken it personally? I had a great opportunity to minister in Ukraine and on our one afternoon of sightseeing in Kiev, this phrase, “the monkey on your back”, became very real to me. As we were walking …
Last summer, our family added a beautiful Siberian Husky to our fold. She was supposed to help with fitness and satisfy the children’s lifelong desire for a puppy. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from a dog and we have the next fifteen years or so to keep learning them… sigh. Last …
Have you ever felt like Charlie Brown when Lucy pulls the football? Have you ever walked away, waiting for her to throw it at the back of your head? Sometimes, life is really hard. Relationships are messy. Trust is broken. Hearts are heavy. I can just feel Charlie Brown’s angst when he sighs that heavy-laden, …
Last year for Christmas, my son and daughter in law to be gave me a beautiful dish, hand-crafted in Mexico. It matches nothing, but that makes it go with everything. I enjoy its colourful glossy patina so much, that I made it my butter dish. Enter the dog. After doing my best to love and …
Joshua 1:13-15 …The LORD your God is giving you rest and and has granted you this land…You are to help your brothers until the LORD gives hem rest, as He has done for you and until they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them… after that, you …
I’m now a couple of days past the drama of creating the hat, and the more often I look at it, the more I appreciate it and the reminders (rebukes & encouragements) it provides. Not only is the hat an inspiration to spend time with my Lord, but it also admonishes me to keep the …
I don’t know about you, but as a homemaker, there are times when I feel as though I’m really not accomplishing much. There is always more laundry to wash, more meals to make, more homeschooling to do, more discipline, more dusting, more organizing, more picking up – you get the idea. Some days, I have …
Matthew 11:29 – 30 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Have you ever found yourself in a situation; partnership, business arrangement, relationship, that seemed like a …
We’re entering into another new year and as I reflect on the last one, there are things that I learn about myself. Last year was hard; not my family died and we lost our home and jobs hard, but emotionally hard. Hard on my head, hard on my heart. As I look back, I remember …