Author: Jenny

Jenny is excited to be guest posting at Leading Women to New Heights: Discover Intimacy With Christ. Please take time to read her article, Adored at http://carlagpollard.com/. While there, I am sure you will enjoy many wonderful words of inspiration by our friend Carla. Thank you Carla! We appreciate all you do for The Lord… Continue reading Guest Post

By Jenny Harrison Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what… Continue reading Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

by Jenny Harrison The following is a collection of work/labor quotes from famous leaders, authors, and scholars– Enjoy! “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”   ~~Theodore Roosevelt “My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it… Continue reading Happy Labor Day

By Jenny Harrison A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. ~~James Keller Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.… Continue reading What About Me?

By Jenny Harrison “Do you see where the sky and water meet? That’s the horizon! If you keep your head up and focus on that point, it will keep you from getting sea sick.” After all these years, my father’s warning and the events of that morning are vivid. We were on a fishing excursion… Continue reading Keep Your Eyes On the Horizon

By Jenny Harrison Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household Ephesians 2:19 (NIV) Students were gathered around the posted “list” with anticipation. Choir was a huge deal in my elementary school, and the 5th and 6th grade try-out results were finally in.… Continue reading Included

By Jenny Harrison I was never fond of the word obey—for me, it carried a negative connotation. Obedience was associated with former rigid and hurtful rules. Maybe this is why I chose not to repeat the word in my marriage vows. (Love, honor, and obey were routinely recited by women in wedding ceremonies when I… Continue reading Do I Have To?

by Jenny Harrison “Thoughts become things…Choose the good ones!”  ~~Mike Dooley Being an all-level special education counselor keeps me constantly moving between campuses and buildings. One morning, as I made my way from the elementary to the middle school building, I entered the playground area. A high level of energy could be felt as I… Continue reading The Crummiest Day

by Jenny Harrison “In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools.The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school.” ~~Alexandra Robbins As unbelievable as that sounds, according to Wikipedia, The Law School at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was a department of Princeton University from 1847… Continue reading The Roller Coaster of Public Opinion

by Jenny Harrison The world says: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Shake It Off! Live With It! It is what it is, deal with it! Toughen up! Put on your big girl panties! But what happens when the elastic in your big girl panties is shot and they fall around your ankles? When your… Continue reading Putting on My Big Girl Panties