Jackie's Journey " Alexandra's Allegory"

Miss Dana Point and my real Princess…

“Now, it was roughly 3 o’clock in the afternoon and I was experiencing a deep midday slump. I had hustled to the gym earlier that same morning and then proceeded to aggressively attack homework assignments into the afternoon. I was feeling overwhelmed with the craziness of life and found myself trapped once again in a mindset I fight so hard to overcome. 

I sat on my bed thinking to myself, “When will I know what my career will be?, When will I feel like I am living life to its fullest?, When will the love of my life propose?, Does everyone have days where they feel a lacking of purpose?”. As I wallowed in discontentment with where God currently has me in life.  I heard a bold knock on my bedroom door. Before I could gather the words to say “come in” the door had already flung open, and “Patience” stood there glaring at me with a peaceful smirk. 

“Quiet down!” she said as I stared back at her. “I’m not making any noise!”, I shouted. She chuckled, “Your thoughts are so loud I could hear them echoing through the hallway!”. Patience then took a seat on the end of my bed and proceeded to ask me why I’m feeling overwhelmed when I know that I am living amid God’s plans. She took me by the hands, and I began to explain to her the mindset that overtakes me; this constant race to ‘what’s next’. 

Patience smiled great big and said, “Although you are praying for God’s plans for the future, you forget that you are currently living out what you prayed for in the past”. She added, “Only a heart of gratitude will yield contentment with current circumstances”. 

Suddenly, the gloomy cloud of anxiousness passed over me. Patience reminded me that when I focus only on the future I miss out on the present and ‘time’ is something that I can never regain. 

So, from that point on I went about the rest of my day praising God and seeking out ways to better express gratitude for the present and all its unknowns”. 

This Blog was recently written as an allegory by my granddaughter, Alexandra Grace.

The prayer of the “comfort and convenient” seeking American woman is, “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now!”  In Bible School, the standing joke was, “never pray for patience because that’s when the trials come!”  Of course, as moms, we see that the struggle is the opportunity to accept it with joy and grow.  The trial is our friend.  Our anger is best controlled when our choices include exercising patience!  John Dewey said, “Patience is the most useful of the virtues.”  

Go out this week and choose, as my granddaughter did in her allegory…

to rest in God’s perfect timing …

and start giving thanks for yesterdays answered prayer 

and enjoying the contentment of todays present…

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Some Contagious Things are Worth Catching!"

While living deep in the Darien jungle of Panama, we occasionally were entertained by little river otters and their playful antics.  One day an orphaned otter followed one of us home.  His talented acrobatic ways won us over, as he attached himself to David, our partners teenage son. There wasn’t anywhere David went that “his hyper-active, pint-sized otter” wouldn’t shadow.  This happy creature had a joyful and adventuresome spirit.  He could slide into the river without making a splash and could stay underwater four minutes!

 I found myself observing his happy-go-lucky attitude, as he totally trusted his new master, and as he merrily went about his day.  His cheerfulness oiled the machinery of his life and he was gliding through with grace!  It was contagious and I wanted some of that oil!  Many people go through life with their soul, like the dry axle, creaking…I did not want to be one of those!

 We had been in Pucuro, our river village, for almost three years and the Kuna’s had grown accustomed to us and were spending more and more time in our house.  Before light, we would hear a friendly call from outside our screen door, “Could we trade a little oil for 2 eggs?”  Our day, then, blurred into regular activities: like washing two dozen diapers in the river after a quick breakfast of fish and rice; then, language and linguistics study. The small medical clinic had taken off, as the Kunas had come to trust us and allowed us to give T.B. injections, deliver their babies, suture their injuries, etc.  Sweeping the entire village, two times a week with large palm leaves had become routine. Christina’s Abeka home-schooling course had begun and she was thriving.  Kim was almost three and loved jungle living and life with her dog, Tinker and multiple cats (they ate the rats and vampire-bats!).

 My busy days and little sleep identified me as one of those axles that needed some of this otter’s oil of optimistic enthusiasm!  “A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance…” Pro. 15: 13   “Now, listen to me (God says),because those who follow My ways are happy.”  Pro. 8:32   If I am not expressing God’s cheerfulness to those around me, I need to make a change!  If I follow HIS will and ways…the promise is, I will be optimistically contagious and walk happy, energized and with a merry heart. I’m choosing His will and ways over my own today...

 How about you?

 Enthusiasm is contagious and so is gloom!

 Which are your children and those around you catching from you??

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "God Has a Big Eraser!"

These were a gift from my daughters, Christina and Kim, over 40 years ago!

I have forever been intrigued by lambs.  They are docile and are crowd followers.  They are submissive and easily led.  They do not utter a sound when they lose their warm wool coats while being sheared or even when they lose their lives!  What they give is for the benefit of the lives of those who took it from them!

 Sheep are instructors of one of the most valuable character qualities known to mankind.  Without it, we find ourselves adrift and separated from both God and man.  Without it, we become angry and bitter.  The fruit of its absence is unresolved relationships and needless stress. Our children watch and adopt the same negative response to life’s situations, with the same harmful results! “Parents, so often, are the persons wondering why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.” John Locke

 I was recently talking to a young married woman in ministry, who assured me that she knew the problem she had with this other person was her problem, but she could not do what is required of her to resolve the conflict in her heart and re-establish her relationship with God.

 Are you wondering what invaluable character quality we are talking about?

 “It is nobler to forgive. ‘Love your enemies…bless them that curse you…

do good to them that hate you…pray for them that use you ill’…

these are the commands of the blessed Savior of men.”  Noah Webster

 When asking forgiveness from God, He tells us to go to the offended brother first and make things right…and then come to the altar. Matt. 6: 24 Forgiveness is when we release our offenders from angry and resentful reactions and instead look for ways to benefit their lives. 

 We always have the choice.  We can blame and poison the fountain, where those following us drink!  Who is more important in God’s eyes?  Can God forgive us, if we refuse to forgive others?  Of course not!! Eph. 4: 32  What entitlement do we have that would keep us from forgiving, as we have been forgiven? Mark 11: 25  “He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.” George Herbert  

Do you forgive others quickly?

or

Do you blame and allow your anger to become toxic?

Booker T. Washington said, “I will not permit any man to narrow 

and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Cosmic Treason!"

Troubled cosmos taken from my bedroom window…

Which is it, moms?  If your child came and asked you, “What is the difference between good and evil?”  How would you answer? I am the mother of two grown married daughters and the grandmother of seven; six of them, college age young people.  As parents, getting our children ready for “life” means teaching our children to distinguish between right and wrong.  In this turned upside down culture, it is imperative as they stand on the threshold of life, that they are prepared and able to discern “good and evil” to find God’s will in their life-changing decisions. 

Where is that “plumb-line”?

 The explosion of youth crime, drugs, alcoholism, domestic violence, unwed mothers, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, etc.…can be traced back to the removal of an absolute standard of right and wrong.  Who dropped the ball?  Is it not us, moms, that will stand and be blamed for not taking God’s Law (the Ten Commandments and the understanding of the consequence of disobedience) and searing them on the hearts and minds of our children?   (It’s always mom’s fault, isn’t it?) 

 “The instances are exceedingly rare of man immediately passing over a clear marked line from virtue into declared vice and corruption.  There are middle tints and shades between two extremes; there is something uncertain on the confines of the two empires which they must pass through, and which renders the change easy and imperceptible.” Edmund Burke

 We live in a world of “gray areas”.  Compromise in our own lives validates the “acceptable sins” being introduced into the lives of our children.  In today’s world, sin is not called sin, so we don’t have to deal with it, right?  WRONG!   Our children learn that our anger (or whatever it is, that you hold on to) ….is acceptable, without consequence.  God says there is a consequence for all sin.  You can be forgiven, but you still have the consequence of the sin to deal with.  Hence, the importance of clarity to our little ones regarding “right and wrong”.  There is to be no betrayal of truth within us.

 “…Imagine Moses agreeing to take part in a panel discussion with Israel over the golden calf; or Elijah engaging in a gentlemanly dialogue with the prophets of Baal.  Or try to picture our Lord Jesus Christ seeking a meeting of minds with the Pharisees to iron out differences.”! A.W. Tozer   We are to teach an allegiance to biblical truth without compromise, regardless, if it is considered popular or not. Or if the masses have accepted it as normal, not sin.

 Sin is cosmic treason. R.C. Sproul   Billy Sunday used to say, “One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake!”  James 4: 17 is the biblical definition of sin.  “To Him who knows to do right and does not do it…to him it is sin.” Using God’s definition for sin brings truth into the light.  

Let’s not forget, moms… our children are watching, imitating, 

repeating and reproducing our “right and wrongs”!  

Let’s not betray their trust…

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Have You Run with the Footmen?"

As moms, we often find ourselves overextended, fatigued and distracted.  Having the schools open again would be a reprieve from the current state of continual answerability.  We find ourselves finding comfort in conversations with others in the same circumstances.  Overloaded and feeling out-of-control…these are the words that express our position, with blame and misunderstanding, the key tones for our troubled attitude.  The very word “endurance” conjures up more “long-suffering” with constant noise and activity! How does one reconcile the given responsibilities with the “tangle” we often find ourselves in?

 “If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out,

then how can you compete with horses?

If you fall down in the land of peace,

how will you do in the thicket of Jordan? Jeremiah 12: 5

 Failing to see the opportunity in our circumstances is paramount to “missing the motherhood-boat” entirely!  The sisterhood of our commission to the success of our children is a concentrated obligation with the job description written into it.  The task is hardy and we will be accountable.  The fruit of our investment and labor is known and read by all who come in contact with us and our children.  

 Frustration and failure are a part of the package.

 When the Confederate army retreated after Gettysburg, General Lee wrote: “We must expect reverses, even defeats.  They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters…”  This is true of the individual life. There is no retreat.  We are at war for the hearts and minds of our children.  

 Thankfully, failure is the line of least persistence. Determination and perseverance are engraved on the heart of every loving and dedicated mom.  They are scripted with a call to excellence and excellence is never cheap.  It is costly. Constant care, serious preparation and continual application are required.  Excellence involves desire plus discipline plus determination.

 Let’s be found “running with the footmen” this week.

True to our calling and committed to enduring the course

for the benefit of those that will carry the banner into the next generation.

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Can You Spot A Lie?"

What is the truth?  Have we been deceived?

“A lie has no legs; it requires other lies to support it.” Plato

 I was going through some books that I have kept since returning from the mission field and ran across a letter, written in 1976, that speaks as clearly today as it did back then.  Emerging from a year of confusion, chaos and life-lessons, I am a mom that is left astounded at the effect our family units have experienced.  As mom’s, we carry a lot of the responsibility for what goes on in our homes. Being alert is imperative and we have certainly had that opportunity these last months with our children being home with us.

 “Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs 

of present or impending decay.” 

Richard Weaver

 “Civilizations do not just die. Their leaders and people are first deceived; then they are destroyed.  ‘Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things (immorality, covetousness, worship of false gods, etc.) comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.’” (Eph. 5: 6)

 The deception comes in the form of ‘the lie’.  The lie was first given to Eve in the garden of Eden: ‘…ye shall be as gods, knowing (deciding for yourselves) good and evil.’  When we listen to the lie… (Gen. 3: 5)

·      It dethrones God and deifies man’s achievements.

·      It exalts human reason as supreme.

·      It trusts education and science to solve problems.

·      It believes that man is evolving into perfection.

·      It replaces God’s moral standards with situational ethics.

·      It promotes sensual pleasure and instant gratification.

·      It strives for a world utopia of prosperity and peace.

·      It makes the State the sovereign dictator over everyone.

 Do you see a pattern here?

 The tragedy is that ‘…because iniquity will abound, the love of many (Christians) will wax cold (toward God, toward their marriage partner, and toward their own sons and daughters).’ (Matt. 24: 12)

 Civilization is not destroyed because of the wickedness of unbelievers., but because of the carnality of Christians. An illustration of this is in God’s willingness to spare Sodom IF there were only 10 righteous in it! (Gen. 18: 32) This is why there is a call to rise up as one voice for our land, our God, our families and for the principles of His Word!” Bill Gothard, “Be Alert to Spiritual Danger”

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom

 is the knowledge of our own ignorance.”

Charles H. Spurgeon

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Have You Met 'Rebellion'"

“The purpose of life is not to find our freedom, but our Master.”  “Why are you in despair…downcast, depressed, discouraged?   And why is your soul disturbed?  Put your hope in God.  Determine to praise Him for the help of His presence. He is your Master.” Psa.42 5

  Our soul wants to go its own way from God.  God seems to demand what we do not want to do. Why can’t God bless our plans and ideas? Of course, there is a very good reason!  Because… we desperately need salvation from ourselves!  We are consumed with the temporal and our focus is on survival, comfort and convenience.

 God thinks eternity, the lives of others and a higher goal.

God is in control despite our efforts to make our own decisions, apart from him. We miss the blessing, if we are not in harmony with HIS will.  

“Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done.

The things you have planned for us.   No one can recount them.

They are too many to declare!!” Psa.40: 5

 Why are we so slow to understand that our Master, who has planned it all before hand, can be so easily ignored?  What do we think is wrong with His plan? Will our natural self ever be able to see the super-natural, without God?  That’s rhetorical…of course not!

·      Look at the wonders of creation in the detailed planning He did.

·      Think of your own situation… the miracles of health, sight, and hearing…

Why would we not want to be led by the One who sees the future?

How many bad experiences have you had with God?

 “Blessed is the man who makes the Lord His trust, who lives to please Him.” Psalm 40:3 “I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly.  I do not seal my lips.  I do not hide Your righteousness in my heart.  I speak of Your faithfulness and salvation.  I do not conceal Your love and truth from the great assembly.”

 Psalm 40:9,10

I want the blessing!

We are not our own.  We were slaves to sin in rebellion,

but now, slaves of righteousness.

“The purpose of life is not to find our freedom…

But to find our owner and boss!”

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Evil Trick!"

I am a person who does NOT like to be misled or tricked!  I am programed to take things earnestly and I don’t always get a good joke or know what everyone is laughing about at the dinner table.  So… to be deceived by any trick is certainly NOT in the docket I came in with! For me, understanding that in addition to crafty false teachers in any realm of learning and deceiving spirits, I can fool myself!  We are to “see to it that no one takes us captive through philosophy and empty deception…” (Col. 2: 8)

 There are many ways we moms can deceive ourselves.  Thinking others can sin and get away with it with no consequence, is one.  Hearing God’s Word but not doing it (Jas. 1:22; 4: 17); thinking I am something I’m really not (Gal. 6: 3);  not calling sin…sin (I Jn. 1: 8); thinking I am wise in the things of the world (I Cor. 3: 18, 19) ; thinking I will not reap what I sow (Gal. 6: 7); thinking that ungodly people who live lives of sin will share in God’s kingdom (I Cor. 6: 9); thinking I can hang out with bad people and they won’t have any bad influence on me. (I Cor. 15: 33); thinking I can be a good Christian and still hurt others by what I say. (Jas. 1:22)… are but a few of the lies we believe…proven out by the fruit of our life.

 Often when confronted by someone who is demonstrating love to us (more than they love themselves) and is taking a chance on our friendship to shed light on our area of need, we defend ourselves, instead of taking responsibility for it.  We refuse to face the bad things that have happened to us (denial of reality); or we escape from the real world by distracting activities (computer, video games, music, involvement in social media, losing ourselves and our issues (fantasy).  We withdraw from people to avoid rejection or we take our frustration out on others.  We make excuses or blame others for our problem.  There are names for all of these responses but none of them set us free from the “evil tricks” of Satan that work against us in life!

“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is

NOT to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it,

BUT to lay a straight stick along-side it.” (D.L. Moody)

 When faced with issues like legalizing marijuana (because we are told we must allow them to exist because we cannot legislate morality), I am reminded that The Law was given for the immoral! Pro. 12:17 Or abortion…the argument states that a full-term baby is only a “fetus”, hence…murder is acceptable!  Deception is believing a lie that begins when the mind and emotions agree on error and is fulfilled when we will to do it!

 We are responsible for the false philosophies we adopt.

 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, 

after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, 

and not after Christ” (Col 2: 8).

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Who's Directing Your Steps?"

As moms, we not only are responsible for where we are headed, but we have little prince and princesses watching and following the path that we set!  They are stepping into the print we leave behind.  No pressure!!  Wise Jeremiah (the “Weeping Prophet”) in Jer. 10:23 makes this confession to God.   “I know, Oh Lord, that a man’s life is not in himself, nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.”  If it is not our own…whose is it?    What is wrong with you or I directing our own steps?   Who can find his/her own talent or purpose in life without God?

 “Who is wise and understanding among you?  Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in humility that comes from gentleness and wisdom.  But IF you harbor jealous and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast about it or deny the truth.  Such wisdom does not come down from heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil.  For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

 BUT the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving, considerate, reasonable, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere, without hypocrisy.  Peacemakers, who sow in peace, raise a harvest of righteousness.” James 3:13-18

 What is your life currently producing?

     How many wisdoms are there?   What are the two sources of wisdom according to this verse?

Selfishness and pride are the most common evidences of wisdom from below… what follows a life of selfish ambition?

   What is the difference between a peacemaker and a peace keeper (doesn’t “rock the boat”?

Godly desires are always pointed toward others… those who need help.

 Isaiah asks, “Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of His servant?  Let him who walks in the dark and has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God”! Isaiah 50 10

1.     What is in the dark or darkness in this verse? (Do you know the future?)

2.     What does it mean to fear the Lord? (Do you hate and fear the consequence of sin?)

3.     Why is obedience required?  (God designed us to need a coach to guide us through life.)

 “But now all of you who light (your own) fire and provide yourselves with flaming torches…go, walk in the light of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand.  You will lie down in torment”! Isaiah 50: 11

  What are our choices? (Do you seek His direction?)

     Is it natural to move towards God or away from Him?

    Are we prone towards submission or rebellion?

 Who’s currently directing your steps?

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Stumbling Block!"

Stepping Stones

 We live in a world where we are bombarded with “acceptable sins”.  Almost anything is considered a “gray area” and totally appropriate in most Christian circles.  The philosophy that we address amoral things as normal is pervasive in our current culture.  Biblical truth is in direct contrast to this false viewpoint.

 As moms, we take great pain to ensure our little ones understand right from wrong. It is not a relative thing.  It is a God thing. He set the standard and they are unchangeable and inflexible.  There is no altering what He has established.  If we fail in our attempt to teach the difference to those following us (whether our children or people we are mentoring), we are called “stumbling blocks” and are guaranteed failure. 

 Where are the “gray areas in life?  Any area that we consider “gray” will be revealed as good or evil when we stand before the judgement seat of Christ. II Cor. 5: 10   There are choices in life that are not clearly defined in Scripture as right or wrong and are left to our own discernment.   We know that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. I John 1: 5  Gray is a mixture of darkness and light and therefore does not qualify as part of God’s realm.  In fact, God condemns any darkness and exposes the reasons we are attracted to it and our need to reject it!  

 Scripture presupposes the fact that there are difficult decisions in life.  We are to “abstain from all appearance of evil”. I Thess. 5: 21-22  It is evil when my liberty becomes your stumbling block.  Our choices are to be based on what is right and what is wrong. The only way to discern good and evil is to be very familiar with God’s standard through His Word, understanding confirmation through prayer and getting counsel from wise and godly people.  If we “drop the ball” and negate our given provision, we become stumbling blocks and can be certain of wrong discernment and decisions. 

 Often, those who insist on “gray areas” are offended, defensive, argumentative, contentious, competitive and accusatory to those who would question a right or wrong activity.  It is a serious matter to realize that disregard for harmony between believers hinders the world from believing in Christ. There is, currently, division in churches and families over the last election and the controversial vaccine. Social drinking, legalized drugs, grounds for divorce, use of pornography, music, childhood behavior, life goals, family life patterns, defining moral purity in our current culture, …..are some of the battlegrounds of disagreement.

 Paul spoke of certain liberties that hindered another and would violate the law of love and therefore would not be good.  He says, “for you have been called into liberty; only don’t use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but serve one another.”Gal. 5: 13 Our focus should be on how this activity will affect others, not what is good for us!  Light cannot have fellowship with any amount of darkness.

 “Let those who hope in You, not be disgraced because of me …

or those who are seeking You, not be put to shame because of me.

 (King David Psalm 69: 6).”

 Stumbling blocks will come, but don’t let it be us!

 Make us “stepping stones”…

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.