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Jessie Rush Norman, Bailey, TX (2024)

05/26/2021

May we all huddle up together today, swap notes and hugs, and move forward with a new plan.

Maybe let’s retire dry it up, fix your face, and I’ll GIVE you something to cry about. No, I know we’ve been using them as a whole group of people for a whole bunch of years. Oh yes, I know the sentences now burst from our mouths in tense parenting situations, thus giving them eternal life.🤦🏼‍♀️

New plan, though. Let’s make space for each other to actually feel what we feel so that we can.....become snowflakes? Close, but nope.

So that we can feel it, be with it, decide we are greater than it, and let it go.

Part 2 of the plan. (It has 47 parts😉) When our kids display emotion that spurs uncomfortable emotions within us, rather than asking them to stop so that our pain can stop-essentially holding them responsible for our wellness, which they should NOT be.....let’s don’t, instead.

I’ll set the scene. They’re overwhelmed and angry, that makes you overwhelmed and angry. You go to EXCLAIM a combination of the sentences above but then all of the sudden....you don’t. You remember you’re the adult and have gathered tools along the way. You ride that first wave quietly in your room, with ONE section of Hershey’s if need be. You grab two more tools from your emotional tool box-deep breathing and prayer, this go-round.

In the other room your child felt they’re feelings, as you felt yours in yours. You sat in another seat. With a big exhale you watch your feels go as you lovingly notify them to not let the door hit them on their way out.

The angels worship loudly as they stand witness to your family using your struggles as stepping stones.

New feelings arrive. Good ones. Good job, Mom. Good job, Dad❤️

03/10/2021

That sparkle in her eyes when it’s time to go to work with Jay. She has no idea what she’ll be doing but she’s certain, from experience, it’ll be above her age-level and she’s so here for it! It lights her kid-heart on fire🔥

Growing up I was drawn to anything that looked like a horse, smelled like a horse, had dirt on it, or smelled like dirt! Even now y’all may wonder what the heck I’m trying to say but Lily probably read that last sentence and said, yep and yep☺️

I can’t help but wonder if God soothes our children’s hearts after our effective, monumental, game-ending mistakes with baby calves, the keys to an old farm truck, hard-heart-healing chores, and the obvious....that smell of dirt.

I will send out an army to find you
In the middle of the darkest night
It's true, I will rescue you
I will never stop marching to reach you
In the middle of the hardest fight
It's true, I will rescue you
🎶L Daigle

Thank you, Lord for marching though the darkest night to save my children❤️

03/05/2021

This one is too important to me. It’s frozen my sleep and my writing skills😉 To fail them with a less-than-beautiful caption, or create an episode that doesn’t honor them is grabbing the human side of me.

Then God corrects with a few,
I laid them on your heart.
You heard my call.
Quickly you cast their words out like falling snow.
When you team together, I’ll use your pain to provide aid to the hurting.
I’ll shape your trauma into a deep-breath for the ones that feel like they are drowning.
I’ll make it make sense, if you are obedient.

I had NO idea they would agree to sit down with us. I had an entire power-point presentation ready, and I didn’t even have to use it! They agreed before I could even pull it up❤️

Their story....and their willingness to vulnerably tell their story tells me that they’ve spent a lot of time talking to the Lord about what He’d have them say when the time came.

Through tears, I introduce to you my coach/“Dad” and his supermodel bride, THE Michael and Kenya Landers✨

This one was important. I think we can end on this note....just kidding.😉

02/21/2021

Growing up, this may sarcastically shock you, but I was always one of the good kids. Surprise!🤣

My identity was rooted in always being good, never getting in trouble, and surrounding myself with others like me. We would replace drunken, tailgate nights in the middle of a remote field with meeting at the church gym to judge the kids that were drunk, on a tailgate....in the middle of a field somewhere. We’d heard horror stories of “good kids that fell into the wrong crowd”, and we’d drawn a hard line at that ever happening to us.

I’m positive we, or I at least, misunderstood the assignment.

And it cost me.

I spent the front half of my life withholding love from the people in my life I needed the most. The ones that would’ve helped me to grow, change, and evolve.

Everywhere I would go people would clean up their language, hide the beer, and count the minutes to my departure. Everywhere Jesus went - people were DRAWN to him, wanted to go WITH him to his next stop....and then they would! They wanted to follow the love.

You’re a bad person?
So what!! C’mon! What’re ya drinking?

You’re a cheat and a thief?
No, I’m sorry I was just asking your name! It’s so loud in here with everyone being welcome and all!

There are things I should know about your past?
Oh I already know them, it’s why I’m here! You ok?

If I only knew?
I do. I love you. A lot. Let’s go on a hike!

If you have found yourself thinking that God won’t love you because the people that follow God don’t love you. First, I’m really sorry about that, we just misunderstood the assignment. Second, it’s bull$hit. Even if the entire world turns their back on you, God is for you...you are probably His favorite even. I wouldn’t be surprised one bit.

02/17/2021

We just got our water back and have not lost electricity. So many of our friends and family are without, though. Jay and Jerry found this little one covered in snow, not sure how they’re still alive but we’re doing the darn thing.

Cash has thrived using the woods as his bathroom🙈, the snow for water supply, and being a father to this new calf...it’s aged him as he’s taken it all so serious, and it’s been pretty fun to see as a momma.

Please send human connection immediately. Use a bunch of words, thanks❤️

Miss y’all

02/08/2021

I hopped our footboard in the night, nearly breaking my big toe, trying to escape the murderer that had me by the arm. Not me dying tonight! Wake up baby, the serial killer sternly pleaded. As I sobbed begging him to let me go, my mind immediately slipped to the cupcake(s) I’d eaten right before bed...knowing full well they give me night terrors.

Norman dragged me back over the foot railing into my resting spot, panicked and uncertain on how best to proceed...he covered me with him.

Have you ever been nearly murdered, dragged, and then smothered in your bed with one of those gigantic propane heaters?

I’m exhausted and Jay is affected.

Anyone have a story? Use a bunch of words💜

01/11/2021

When we found her she had one steer in a headlock, another by the tongue, and was gruntin’ and grumblin’ that we were blockin’ her path to the trailer. City-folk, idiots I think she called us😉

This week though, only 17 mos later, she called us with an idea💡

What if we ask everyone(she doesn’t like people) if they want to join together(she’s not a fan of groups) and help a family in need(strangers😩) at the local grocery store(gag the old her with a fork!!)🤣

God has a funny way with all of us, doesn’t He?!

When Jay agreed to do the podcast with me I KNEW it had to be God, because it wasn’t Jay-no way, no how.
When Kam brought this idea to us we knew it had to be the Lord, because this is the LAST position Kam Elliott would ever be caught in!

In less than an hour, in Durango, Co Kam will be taking all of your donations to pay for a sweet family’s groceries.
Luckily, God sent help! , you are sunlight! {see stories}

Dear God,

Please help this family to feel your love and presence in their lives today. We ask you to show them that when they beg you for help, you send a couple of cowgirls with a community fund in their back pockets. Thank you for showing us how to love on others, and prove your presence with a pack of bologna. We promise to never doubt your plan again. If less of us is more of you, take everything🤷🏼‍♀️

All our love,

01/09/2021

Why does this make my last post look like I need an intervention!? I would’ve have been none the wiser 🤣🤣

I love a good before & after 🙈

Now something to make this silly post count. But what 🤔

Oh!

For the past three years Lily has had coaches ride her tail. One year was so laughable how often and how loudly you’d hear the name “Lily” called. It bothered her, of course, especially since we would get so tickled....instead of storming to school to rectify the situation like idiots. We’d explain it was a good thing, rather. You don’t hear them repeatedly scream any of the names on the bench do you?? They are not going to waste their breath. When you need to worry....is when they go quiet.

The hits keep coming in your life? As you come up for air from one huge wave another comes crashing down? Once you finally scrape through one storm, another one is heavy in the forecast?

If you haven’t realized it yet, third-base runner, the struggle simply symbolizes your greater height.
My love, you must only worry when things get quiet, like a toddler in the next room. Smooth is no longer our friend, and easy ended in our early 20’s.

Count it ALL joy my friend when you experience trials of all kinds.🤩{James 1}

Let’s Celebrate!
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01/09/2021

I shared my darkest words with a friend yesterday, words I didn’t think I could return from after they left my mouth. They were confirmation that I, indeed, was as broken and messed-up as I’d always suspected. You may search the earth for the worst heart and sadly......land at mine🙄

My dear friend blew my hair past from my face laughing. Not with me. At me. My big, bad, dark words fell “small-time” at her feet, as she expressed she could out-do them on a Tuesday. I’d never been so relieved in my life to be laughed at.

It may not be considered correct for all of us to share our personal stuff with the world, to “air our dirty laundry”.

The deeper I’ve waded in, though, the more clear its become that in the quiet can come isolation, and in isolation a rewriting of the truth with our own stupid, stupid version.

So for this morning I beg you one thing. Take two things, your most tender thoughts and your phone. Call your most trusted friend. The one that’s not divulged someone else’s private truth to you. {DM me for my number if needs to be me} Make the call, empty your heart, and catch your breath.

We’ve got a life to lead, people to help, and fake-shackles to ditch.

Go to my stories for Sherri’s incredible description. Love y’all!

01/03/2021

I lost my aunt last year. Or way more importantly, my cousins lost their momma, and my uncle lost his perfect bride❤️

She’s my sunlight. The times I allow my crazy to come untucked, I can feel her gentle nudge to “soften”.

I tease the Lord in my prayers, “of course you would take the best of us for yourself, none of us could blame you”.

My favorite part of 2020 was that my favorite person on earth got her ultimate reward....to walk the streets of gold with Jesus.

Talk about T-total FOMO, the absolute best kind❤️

Oh....and here are my favorite captures from our ski trip this week. Creed is the closest I’ve ever been to Heaven, so you can bet my beautiful Aunt Mary lived in my mind rent-free all week long, and I wanted to honor her this morning✨

01/02/2021

In my last post I expressed my gratitude to each of you for saving my broken life, and I wanted to bring the three leaders of your charge into focus.

This small help mission arrived early 2017 and immediately deployed a divide-and-conquer strategy on Lily, Liza, Cash, and I picking up pieces of our broken hearts and slamming them back into place. They only have one gear, full-tilt.

They walked in, tore up my pathetic game plan, said my name a whole bunch - it’s my love language - and then went to work on the kids.

I’m not the same.

They made sure of it.

Because the “me” they found would not have survived the new plan. She would’ve made a horrible stepmom, and an even worse new wife.

The seven of us each had to stretch, and rise to a much greater height to make it through something SO demanding - blending our family.

I skied with my stepson yesterday, just he and I. He doesn’t know but I had tears the entire run behind my sunglasses. I just kept telling God thank you for such a special opportunity.

To be their stepmom, for them to be so loving, and for not making me ride down the mountain in one of those rescue sleeping bags🤣

I love you❤️

01/02/2021

Well.

Who is that, and who in the H does she think she is?

She’s a woman that comes in last place pretty often.

Then why in the hooty-who does she host a podcast??! Isn’t that like the blind leading the blind.

Yep.

That was my first refute to the Lord. But, God I’m the least of these, I’m not “leader material”. And He replied, “go out there and let them know what the least of you can accomplish, just trust me, go shake things up!”

And we are gonna blindly and wonderfully lead you into this new year under one circumstance....while we’re draggin, promise you’ll be pushin’! It’s the ONLY way we are gonna all pull this off😉

Thank y’all for a full year of making us feel WAY COOLER than we are, well not Jay - he really IS that cool😉

Thank y’all for making my trip around the sun have total worth. I owe my broken life to you🙏🏼

12/30/2020

Kam: Jess, what’s wrong here lately?

Me: Oh, I’m fine. It’s just that life is pointless and nothing matters and I’m always tired. Also, I can’t sleep, I’m overeating and none of my old hobbies interest me🤷🏼‍♀️🤪🤣

Kam: My person, Decembers are like the Sunday’s of the year, go take a nap, you’ll be fine!🥰

12/21/2020

The ladies that help me with our home called me from inside my home while I was dropping Lily at practice this morning. They sounded a little confused, and a lot annoyed. It took me a bit to realize they had never, and I mean NEVER, seen our home look anything other than like a bomb had gone off.

They assumed they had caught us hiring someone else to clean, and I truly cannot stop laughing. Jay wheezed.

It’s been a tough year ok? Geez get off my back😉

Seriously though, I remember waking up earlier and earlier each week after the pandemic started. I could find the healing in that. Today, I stand in my home that was clean before the cleaning ladies arrived, and I’m going to tell God thank you and do a little jig💃🏼

This too is passing, y’all✨

12/14/2020

For nearly a month we've been asking the the Lord for two things. First, that He would send us those of you that would feel led to donate monetarily, whether 50 cents or $50. Second, and most importantly, that we would be able to hear Him clearly enough to get to the correct small table in a very large Ft. Worth, Tx....to be with her face-to-face and tell her about all of you and your BIG love. So that she could confirm how BIG our God is, and how faithful and charming He can be when we Huddle around one another.
Here is Jeannie and as it turns out she had been praying to find us as much as we'd been praying to find her. 🖤
Thank you all SO much for the generosity and love you brought to this Teacher & Momma of a 7 year old daughter who waitresses on the weekends. Y'all are the real MVPs!

12/08/2020

Lily took Sat and Sun, and my girls are flying in from Wed to Mon....but he wanted one night.

What he wants, he gets. I’m thankful it’s me.

@ Official NFR Experience

12/07/2020

I asked them to clear the streets for this pic. They did not. Rude.😉

The anxiety that you’re feeling this morning that your babies are going to grow up. Can’t blink, can’t take that nap or shower for what you’ll miss. They’re only little for a bit right?

I get it. I was the same as you, still am.

If I can give you a breath of hope this morning, Lily growing up has been my favorite part of her growing up 😉

She’s my oldest and each year has gotten better and better....if I can scratch years 11 and 12, which I can because it’s my post 😂

Taking her away to Fort Worth for the night as she lets me dress and paint her face like Rodeo Barbie....could you just pass out??! Go back to the hotel, each of us get a bed with snacks, wake up and repeat!!

I’ll take your giant forehead bows and mini knife sheaths and raise you a gal that laughs at my mildly inappropriate jokes, loves BIG, is finally a momma’s girl, and can lug JUST as much luggage as me to the car!

I pray this can give your sweet, amazing-momma-heart a nice calm this beautiful morning. I like you so much better when you’re a bit more calm😉😘

👜: 🤩

12/06/2020

just feels right, you guys. Thankful knew to tell me who I was so I could get an extra deep breath and chill out🥰

Heading home to take the kids to school, grab my other boots, and my favorite human on earth to start the week back in Ft. Worth🌵

It’s not Vegas, no, but it’s not lacking in magic or wonderful people by ANY means.

God bless Texas 💙❤️

@ Will Rogers Memorial Center & Facilities

12/03/2020

You want to use your words to help, but...

They will say you’re fake.
Laugh when you say you’re a Christian.
Sit around and all mock you, while they roar with wild laughter.
Share your posts, videos, blogs/vlogs with each other to tear them apart.
Verbally condemn your name in public.

Bob Goff once said, “a life of following Christ is a life of being constantly misunderstood”. You’re not in this space so that people will “get you”, you’re called to help the hurting. Things will never be comfortable ever again, because you aren’t called to be comfy in Christ, you and I are called to love the ones that make it incredibly tough to do so.

Put pen to paper today and list out names of people that are stopping you from bringing help to others. Whether they’re in your family, at your work/school, or maybe others here in this space. Deep breath as you read them, exhale. That’s done.

If someone has not spent time in the bottom of that cold and lonely pit, desperately begging God to send help, only to be placed high on a mountain top with a new puppy....how in the H would you ever expect them to understand you!? YOU don’t understand you🤗

Thank you, next. We’ve got people to help!

I love y’all. Like, all of y’all.

11/28/2020

Me: I’ll never be happy, ever again. I’ll sleep away as many hours as I can. I know who is worthy of love, and I’m not her. I’ll never know joy or peace, ever again. If I sit quietly enough in this corner maybe God will allow me to simply exist, devoid of any blessing or-

God: listen, I’m sorry to interrupt but whatcha talkin’ bout, Willis?!

11/27/2020

I thought the joy was in the money, romance, status, job, house, or fame.

Turns out it’s just in the romance....I’m just kidding, but I do love that ol’ cowboy, my goodness! Yes ma’am!

I love this age. I’ve tried it all. It all came up empty.

Now is where I start making up for all those times I pushed past them to find my more....when they were the most I could ever dream of, all along!

Drawing a circle around us tonight, once again. I couldn’t get within’ 6-ft of yours if I wanted to, so now’s a perfect time for you to do the same!

That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world⚡️
{Philippians}

Thanksgiving 2020 - Our first one as just the seven of us.

11/25/2020

I can rest there while he’s on watch ...a picture of our entire marriage➕
You want your woman to chill out? Hold her really tight and give everyone crazy eyes😠

11/24/2020

When she was younger we called her mommy-sister. She was an absolute mother-hen to Liza and Cash, and would even try to discipline them in front of me. Sometimes funny, but a lot of times my pride would scream-I’m the mom and I’m right here!

When Lily was 8, Liza 4 we were walking through the church parking lot at night after service had let out. Lily was extremely snippy with how Liza was walking through the cars, more so on this night. I remember (like it was five minutes ago) turning and STERNLY fussing, Lily leave her alone-I am her mom and I’m RIGHT here!

As we walked another twenty steps I turned to make sure they were with me, and when I did I saw Lily jerk Liza forward as my friend LAID on his gas to reverse out of his spot. He was joking around with his buddies and had NO idea my four year old was behind his car.

For MANY years I allowed the enemy to replay every part of that memory. Me screaming at Lily, the same one that would save Liza’s life that night. The look on Liza’s face as the car brushed her hair as she was being thrust forward. Over and over and over.

And honestly I have about six of these goodies, take your pick. If you want to know why us mommas deal with anxiety it’s because several of us have these memories on debilitating replay. Especially when things start to get going our way.

You know what I finally did? This. Instead of trying to fight it off every time it would try to come on- with a run, workout, bath, nap or glass of wine I simply:

let it hurt, instead.

I allow myself to remember each and every little part, as it guts me, and I feel exactly how that makes me feel. I allow the sadness, guilt, and fear to wash over me until it runs dry. I let the enemy replay the tape until he doesn’t get a reaction out of me anymore, gets bored and takes a long walk off a short pier.

What you resist WILL persist, and I pray over your momma heart that you will allow those moments that occurred all those years ago to FINALLY serve the purpose they were meant. To grow and stretch you in a refining fire.

Let’s press play, let it hurt, and move on.

Fear has convinced you that you’re not strong enough to do this, and that is an absolute lie.

11/23/2020

My stepson gets up each morning at 4:30a to workout...just like his dad.
I love my morning with God, and a 3p cracker/cheese snack-break....just like my mom.
I’ve got a mini little cowgirl walking around this place, posing for pics with her aussie-dog....just like her Aunt Kam in Durango.
Cash claps before a gratitude hug...just like he’s seen me do for years.
Unattractive attitudes on the court perfectly mirror their parents making a fool of themselves in the stands....the visitors’ side, of course😉

Have you seen anything cuter than mini-cowboys/cowgirls mimicking their adults? With their little ropes and mini-knife sheathes...ready to pretend-work any calf that’ll let it.

We spend a lot of our lives wishing people would act a whole different way, when it’s as simple as “going first”.

Are you sick of them gossiping about you? End the gossip on your end. Quiet.
Are you exhausted from their drama? End yours. Still.

It’s over. Turn the page. Move forward. Words my daddy once told me, and they’ve come in awful handy most days.

Think I’ve got a good daddy? I’ve got a good sister too, and she spoke that quote over me more than a month ago. My heart wants to think on it each day, as it’s one of those sentences that stuck.

Thankful for family, today. Everyday.

11/21/2020

Praise will lift your perspective to see God’s promise in your problem➕
Steven Furtick

I was raised southern baptist so you can bet your britches I’ve used words like omnipotent and benevolent in my prayers since I was five. I am still not fully comfortable using either in an everyday sentence, and may have had to google both words just now to know their full definitions.

The way I was raised wasn’t wrong, it was beautiful. I want to take that upbringing and add even more soul to it, like my parents did for me.

We’ve gotten so good at encouraging and praising each other! It just feels SO good:

When I tell my kids they did such a NEAT trick.
When I emotionally pass out over the finest blog you’ve ever written
When I tell you it’s going to be my third time to watch your video, and there will probably be a fourth.
When I mention how good you look in them jeans😉
When I send copies of your new book all across the nation, because it’s that good.
When I tell you how beautiful your painting is, or brilliant your graphic design is, again. You always do such awesome work!
Or when we all gather together and shower praises over you for your amazing podcast episode with Burger King.

How beautifully free our minds would be if we could continue all of that good lovin’ and add praising God to our day. Just how we gain a foot in height when someone tells us who we are, does our Lord relish in hearing how beautiful His Yellowstone is, how fluffy he made sweet doggos, and how solid it was of Him to send those whole friends our way. Of course He already knows it, but it would be incredible to hear it again once in awhile, even better if you can put it in a song. He loves being sung to....even if you can’t carry a tune in a bucket.

11/21/2020

My husband, the one in charge of caring for my heart, reserves certain fields for me to plow. He knows I want to pitch in my part, sure, but mostly he knows:

✨I’ve had the perfect earrings in mind for such👏🏼a👏🏼task👏🏼
✨We want to spend the day together, but splitting up and sprinkling visits makes things pretty sweet
✨Too many thoughts have been racing through my mind, tormenting my every movement - 12 hours, me and God, on a large piece of equipment is the cure
✨That field needs the bigger model tractor, with the larger tires and THAT means plenty of space for River Marie
✨That field runs next to the lake. So water. Also, a couple of whitetails and a dozen geese came to check River and I out
✨I can position my last pass to witness and take pictures of the most beautiful, feathered sunset this side of Texas
✨I essentially arrived at our farm, put a doily on the nightstand, and a decorative pillow on the combine😉

I’m a AND a

Courtenay DeHoff TV

11/21/2020

Took the 5 doggos on a walk. The breeze was so wonderful at one spot as I stopped to check something on my phone. My mind kept saying, we have to get back to the house, we HAVE to get back. But the truth was that no one was waiting on us. No one was at the house, and it was perfectly fine and healthy to sit right down in that wonderful spot and enjoy the moment.

Sometimes’s it’s ok to correct your mind with a, that’s not true! If you’re heading in a brand new direction your mind is going to do everything it can to save you from that uncertainty. It’s ok to tell your mind to have a seat every once in awhile, that you’ve got this one just fine.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. We quoted that to be Jay’s grandpa, but turns out it was Jay’s grandpa quoting Henry Ford or Albert Einstein. No matter who coined it, it rings so true today.

Praying we’ll get awkward and uncomfortable together as we find new ways to reaching our heart’s desire✨

Jessie Rush Norman

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