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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

Life

  • Imagined difficulties

    When you are unwilling to do work, even lifting your hand to feed yourself, your mind can do wonders imagining difficulties that don’t exist. The gravity’s pull feels too strong to get out of bed and do something with your life. Because you’d rather rot doing nothing than exert effort and live as a person… Read more

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  • Hard words break no bones

    Even when you scream the most vile thing you can imagine, those words would only harden someone’s heart against you. But to speak kindly breaks bones. Done right, kind words bring you favor. It’s something I learned from: By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,And a soft tongue breaks the bone.Proverbs 25:15 (NASB1995) Read more

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  • Walking in the rain

    When you’ve prepared for it, the rain won’t bother you anymore. You are okay to get wet because you’ve equipped yourself for the occasion. So, if you don’t go out ready, especially when you already have the foresight of what may be, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. The same goes for the choices… Read more

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  • Letting go of an argument

    What good does winning an argument make while somebody else becomes a laughingstock? Winning might make you feel good and deceive you into thinking that putting the other in a bad light makes you better. But no. Only fools would rejoice with you while the rest detests you for doing so. While letting go of… Read more

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  • Happy 3rd anniversary!

    Wow! What a thought to behold! Has it been three years since I decided to ship the work, even when there’s no grand welcome? But look! Here we are and still thriving! A few have asked me why I blog, and here’s my lengthy response. And I will always remember why I started this blog so… Read more

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  • The influence of prayers

    I’ve read about the Prayer of Jabez in High School from a small book, “The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life” by Bruce H. Wilkinson. It was a short read, but it changed how I see the influence of prayers. The book focused on a passage in 1 Chronicles 4. What started… Read more

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  • When an AI writes a story

    I asked the WordPress AI assistant to “tell me a story about a man who would have talked to a woman, if only when the opportunity for him to confidently greet her happened but did not.” The statement in the parenthesis is the prompt I used to generate the content you’d be reading in the… Read more

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