Tag: Jessie Smallwood

• Do Hard Things. Allow them to shape your gratitude.

  

  The night before my family adopted the 10-week-old German Shepherd/Chow Chow puppy, the bully-of-a-neighbor kid jumped our wood fence and did damage to the backyard. (And I think, maybe, our toy poodle.) We went to high school together and started out as friends, but he made a turn for the worse and began saying mean…

  homegrownjournal

  November 15, 2021

  2021, December 2021, Rescue Dogs, Storytellers, The Fur Kind

  ACL, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, Big Rainbow Tomato, Brooke Rathbun, Chow Chow, Emergency Vet, Emergency Veterinary Clinic of Southwest Missouri, Gillioz Theatre, Grace Lee, Jessie Smallwood, Julie Johnson, Kathy Wingo, Katrin Scott, Missouri, Nixa, Philip Herzog, Safely Dispose of Drugs, Springfield

• Jessie Smallwood

  

  I give thanks for all you have done, I won’t forget all the battles you have won. The words to this song were counterintuitive in the wake of devastating loss. Yet there I was, singing out over my church family, leading a song of gratitude. And that simple act of obedience became the key to…

  homegrownjournal

  November 6, 2021

  2021, November 2021, Storytellers

  Bible, Convoy of Hope, Elevation Worship, God, Grateful, Gratitude, Grief, Jessie Smallwood, Missouri, Praise, Springfield, The Courageous Church