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  My new web site is www.barjeana.com. This is my jewelry label. Yeah! Do you know what's funny to me about this? I have searched and searched for an unusual name....?? Duh! I'll share some pictures from the pre published site, but right now I want to talk to you about the process.. I like to say that I haunt the isles of clothing shops and or hobby stores. I look at each piece over and over again until I see "it".  This set used to be a "gawdy" pair of earrings. No, really. I  loved the colors, but the style was "unimaginable" to me. I took this piece apart and made two necklaces and a set of earrings.  These aren't professional pictures (duh) nor are they the finished products, but you get the idea. All of these pieces together were one and a half earrings. Recently I took very pretty earrings that hurt my ears and changed them into necklaces. I don't have a before picture of either, but here's that after of one of the necklaces. Most

  Daughter of my daughter.   I’m a born writer.  My mother said that if she’d put a pen in the bathroom I’d write a song on it.   When my daughter was old enough I had to hide pens.  Not because she wrote words… no. She drew pictures.  Her heart was so full of vision that no surface was untouchable by her artistic hand.  Now you see the perpetuity of the artistic flare.  My baby drew on her baby; it’s beautiful and so is she.  

 It's 2021 and the world is still upside down. The media tells me that over 20 percent of this nation believes we are on the right path. If I said I understood, I would be lying. So, what do I say? After much prayer and rehearsing Psalm 91 this is my proclamation. My Proclamation     I am a mighty force in this nation! Peace follows me everywhere I go. I am undisturbed by the events around me because my focus is on my God and His blessings remain on my life.     When darkness comes to tempt my soul, I recognize it and confront it. I know truth and recognize all lies. I refuse to give my time to things that do not build me up. I am wise in everything I do.     I know that winning is an attitude, not an action . Therefore, I am a winner. I may not be loved by everyone I meet, but I will be respected because I know who and whose I am. I will not compromise.     I live in a state of forgiveness. I have healthy boundaries and I will not allow another person's' actions to determi

  I can not tell a lie! My daughter came up with idea for this blog . Of course, my children came up with the name of this blog. I am so proud of them! What did you fail at....today? Wait a minute I thought this was about success! Keep reading and see what you think  Some days the list is so long that it can be down right discouraging. I get it.  Why would I want to talk about what I failed at today?  What would it be like if you sat at the dinner table and listed all the things you failed at each day? What kind of conversation would that stir?  I don't know about you, but I thought I was to celebrate my successes....right? I mean, whoever succeeds the most wins...right? What if that's the wrong way to look at life? Let's take some utter failures and talk about them, then lets talk about personal failures. It's easy to talk about abstract failures that turned into victories. For example: Einstein failed at MATH????? Now, I look at that in a positive and a negative way.

  I've come to a unique, not unique, revelation today. In two days some of us will relive the worst day in America. There have been wars and tragedies, but nothing like that day. I was standing in my living room and the TV was on. Suddenly my heart stopped. Surely that airplane was going to go around that building. Why aren't they turning? Then...the world fell apart, but American's pulled together. Whoever "they" are have been trying to divide us and I'd like to pose a question....How many Democrats and Republicans died on 9/11? Do you know? I don't. The world and the United States was not one party or another. Who has deceived us? You know, that's what people all around us are trying to do. They are trying to figure out how we got deceived. We aren't deceived....we're Americans. We are not a two party system. Nobody can defend a party...we defend a Union. Do we have to agree on everything... I don't know anyone that agrees on anything eve

  Define it!      We, in the United States (and elsewhere) are looking for a savior. Some people thought Biden was their savior, some thought that it was Trump. I have a revelation for you, these are men, not saviors. There is only one Savior and only one thing to be saved from: Jesus who saved us from eternal separation from God. Who is going to save America?        We are waiting for an "Intervention." We are waiting for somebody to "care enough" about us to intervene on our behalf, someone in authority to "save the day".  We've given up our power.       I grew up thinking that someone would come and save me from abuse and dysfunction. I went to the altar, begging God to intervene on my behalf. But my idea of intervention and God's plan had very little to do with each other. I thought God's mercy was going to come and "save the day."  His mercy did something much better. His mercy came and showed me the dysfunction I was acceptin

  This is a difficult subject for most people to relate to.  Most abusers leave a physical mark on their victims.  Usually it’s somewhere out of immediate sight , but it’s there.  The person who is physically abused has the ability to show their pain. They are trained not to tell and they rarely do.  It doesn’t usually end well.  What I’m about to say may make some people angry. But it needs to be said.  I’ve met countless women who have suffered mental and emotional abuse , they tried to tell someone, but there were no visible scars.  No black eye. No broken ribs, But the pain was just as real.  The difference is staggering. The physically abused woman heals, her abuser promises not to do it again, then he does   The pattern repeats itself  . I hope all hurting women get help  . The verbally, emotionally or even spiritually abused woman goes to counseling and is often dismissed .  There is no “evidence”  . I have one friend whose counselor told her her husband was too good for her.  T

 This has been the mantra of a powerless church.  We don’t want to “embarrass “ new believers.  What? Christ calls us to be embarrassed! We must abandon ourselves in order to make room for Him.  Church: where are the altar calls? Where are the people that will run to the only God who can save them. Where are we church? Do we have time for altar calls? Do we have time for healing lines? If we don’t then where are we spending our time? Are we ushering sick people out without change and ushering in the next crowd so we don’t make anyone upset? Be upset! People are dying in their delusions. The church has been put on a timer and people are ushered in and out and nothing has changed    Are we busy salving they souls (minds) of men and throwing them into the pit of hell? YES! If we don’t have time for the praise and the process, what are we doing? I’m tired church.  I’m tired of being waved in, ushered around without the power.   I can watch motivational speeches from home.  Where will we en

    “Build that Wall”  is a call directed to those who are called by the name of The Lord, including me. Romans 5:20 " Moreover, the law entered that the offense might about. But 'where sin abounded', grace aboundeth much more."   Grace is our wall.  Sin is abounding in our Nation/World, yet there are many of us still here to stand against evil.  Throughout my lifetime I've heard various commentators state that we (the people of God) should remain silent and let the devil take over; that is a lie!  Here is the Word of the Lord: 12   k  Therefore He said: "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.   13   "So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten  1  minas,  2  and said to them, 'Do business till I come.' "  Luke 19:12-13.  We must be found doing the work of the Father, not preaching in pulpits or pointing out faults and drawing dividing lines. Laws are laws, morals are morals. Yo

  God blessed me with a dog that I named Kai. I already had Daniel, but he needed a friend.  Daniel is a black lab and he’s still a puppy. I had something happen that prevented me from playing with Daniel. Labs need someone to play with  it had been me up until that point   I decided to look  for an answer  God loves Daniel and He loves me .  There’s a particular dog breed that has fascinated me . I was never bold enough to ask for it until that day. I searched for a rescue dog that would be a good friend to Daniel.  When I saw Kai’s face I knew he was the answer to my prayer and a gift from the Lord   Kai is a full blooded Husky. He’s amazing . He is two years old and had been from foster home to foster home.  Kai suffers from PTSD. For some reason he has to be able to see outside   But Kai has something else. He has the ferocity of a wolf . His disability does not prevent him from being who he was created to be. Daniel’s personality is super friendly. He thinks the world was created