Tag: Intentional Happiness

Update after a Break

It’s been several months since I wrote on my blog.

Honestly, I haven’t felt much like doing anything since my husband passed from this valley of sorrows last September. I truly believe his soul is at peace on the other side of the veil with God, the angels, and all his loved-ones who have gone before him. I truly believe that he was greeted into the warmth of God’s eternal love. These are truths that have sustained me on a daily basis. These are the truths that get me from moment to moment.

It has been eight months since that rainy September morning.

Eight months later on this sunny spring morning I listen to birds singing high in the oak trees and I consider the future, the years that lie ahead of me. This life is a journey filled with twists and turns, with heartbreak and joy. It is a rollercoaster of emotions. I have run the gamut of emotions these past eight months.

God has sustained me through the darkness. He is my fortress, he is my strength. I turn my soul completely to God and trust that I will move forward on my journey and that I will live my days with purpose, that I will serve him with my life.

I have been working on my writing projects: Two novel ideas, and a poetry book. I plan to put them on Barnes and Noble Press. Oh, also, an art book. Yes, I consider myself an artist of sorts. I love colorful drawings so I have been trying my hand at my own art book.

I am being intentionally happy. Yesterday, I took a river cruise. It was spectacular to see such wilderness on either side of the river’s bank. There were cypresses, oak, and pine, and several crocodiles.

Feeling the cool wind, the warm sun, and just basking in the loveliness of this earth’s beauty revived my soul.

I have to move forward from this grief of the past eight months.

With God’s help I shall. Only God can heal us in this life. Only God. Not religion. Not money. Not acquiring things. But only God.

So, with intentional happiness, each day I will find joy in the beauty around me.

I will set aside time for my writing projects.

Please pray for me; please pray for this world and the hurting souls that dwell in it.

May we all turn our eyes to God who loves us and gives us peace in the storms of this life.

There is light at the end of the darkest night.

God is that light.

Thank you for reading.

Jenny

Copyright 2025 Jenny W. Andrews

Morning Commute: Prayer

This morning as I got in my car for my usual drive to work I decided to do something different. Usually, I turn on the radio only to get bombarded with a barrage of horrible news of apocalyptical proportions. It appears that the sky is going to fall on us all and. . .well. . .this and that is just terrifying. . .

As I turned my key to back out of my driveway I caught a glimpse of the sunlight filtering through the tree branches; I heard birds singing as they winged across the pale blue sky. The soft hint of jasmine caught on the cool morning breeze. Indeed, at least in my little corner of the world, there is beauty and peace. Why would I want to disrupt my joy by listening to the litany of bad news that some people have made a career on? Let’s face it, newscaster and politicians make a ton of money keeping us all at each other’s throats and keeping us afraid of living.

Truth is the world is a good place; there are good people. But, if you listen to the news (it doesn’t matter which station or which political party that is supporting it) you would think that all there is is death, evil, and destruction.

When in fact this is God’s world; he alone is in control.

So, instead of tuning into the usual fearmongering, I tuned into the Holy Spirit and I asked the Holy Spirit to accompany me in my day and to protect those whom I love and to grant me peace and freedom from anxiety, and to protect me and those whom I love from evil.

In my commute to work, I prayed to the Holy Spirit for all these things that make my life peaceful. I prayed for those who do evil, that their hearts would be changed and that they come to know the truth of God’s love, and peace.

On this morning commute, I felt at peace.

Right now, I feel at peace.

We have to be intentional in our life with what will move us forward.

Faith in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit will move us forward because we know that we are loved, that we are protected no matter what this world might throw at us.

Tomorrow morning, and from now on, I plan to spend my morning commute praying to the Holy Spirit.

I encourage you to turn off your radio, or I-phone, or whatever device you might use, and simply listen to the world around you, and to pray, and spend time with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

Put away your social media; unplug for a few hours a day. Go outside.

God’s world is truly beautiful.

You will miss the beauty if you continue staring at a computer screen!

Jenny W. Andrews copyright 2022