donnajonesministry

What would you do if you knew you had one week to live? Visit family? Travel? Make things right with a loved one? Call your friends? Most of us will never know when it’s our last week of life. But Jesus did. At just 33 years old he knew. It was finished. It’s hard for me to wrap […]

  Hope deferred makes the heart sick. – Proverbs:12a I stumbled on this verse years ago when something I longed for seemed like a distant dream that would never come to pass.  And to be honest, the prospect of my hopes and dreams remaining forever unfulfilled left me empty, sad and occasionally, angry. It also […]

I left the eye doctor’s office confident I could put in my new contacts. I just wasn’t sure I could get them out. My doctor had me practice before heading home and I’d put them in like a pro but getting them out wasn’t quite as easy. I needed her help to remove them each […]

Years ago I wouldn’t have said yes. But I’m not the same person now. Years ago, the practical side of me would have come up with ten thousand reasons it wasn’t practical for us to book a hotel room in the morning and be sitting by the pool hours away from home the same afternoon. […]

It all started with two blue pills. No, not that kind. I’d been battling a cold for close to two weeks and just when I thought I might be getting better—bam!—things took a turn for the worse. I had a weekend long conference and needed to be able to focus without the nasty distraction of […]

I just returned from speaking in Alabama and on the flight home I caught up on one of my favorite pleasures–travel-time reading. As I read, one line seemed to leap off the page. Recently I’ve had several conversations with women who feel stuck in some area of their life due to fear. I’m afraid I’ll […]

“Happy President’s Day!” said no one ever. Up until this year, President’s Day has meant nothing more to me than a long weekend and killer sales. But this year is different. This year I’m reminded how desperately our leaders on both sides of the aisle need our prayers. The truth is, they have always needed […]

I was rushed, with a to-do list ten miles long and not much time to get it all done. Things had not gone as planned: an unexpected phone call telling me out-of-town guests were arriving early afternoon instead of late evening; a neighbor’s urgent need for help; a work deadline that demanded finishing, groceries to […]

I was rushed, with a to-do list ten miles long and not much time to get it all done. Things had not gone as planned: an unexpected phone call telling me out-of-town guests were arriving early afternoon instead of late evening; a neighbor’s urgent need for help; a work deadline that demanded finishing, groceries to […]

Is anyone else out there about to lose their mind listening to all the voices screaming for attention in the current political climate? Let me be clear: Dialogue is important. But dialogue is more than words. It’s also about what tone we communicate as we are communicating. All this has me thinking about our upcoming […]