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Teacher. Writer. Minister. Jesus Lover.

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Kathryn Jankiewicz

Writer. Speaker. Healer. Lover of Jesus.

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Experience enhanced heart freedom with a private session

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Peek into my Garden

I don’t really have a favorite season. Every sea I don’t really have a favorite season. Every season has its gift. A thing to anticipate with joyful expectations. 

Spring blooms, Fall leaves, Summer sun, and winter snow are nature’s invitation to smile with the Creator. 

Our life stories have chapters that can kinda be grouped together in seasons. Those seasons mark the turning of time in the carousel of life. We can know joy because we know the pains of sadness. We can know peace because we know the seas of storms. We can know the sunrises because of the darkness of night. 

In every season, is the invitation to smile. 

From my experience, I recognize the opportunity to perceive the reality, see the facts, but take the challenge to believe The Truth. The Truth found in the light. 

The first verse of the Bible I ever memorized as a seven year old child was “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Written deep into the bedrock of my soul, I have believed in His light… and have seen it shine even when it was stars twinkling in a cloudy sky on a moonless night. 

In my current season of wrestling, I have been challenged to accept my humanity, sit with the questions, feel the uncomfortable emotions, listen to the “why’s,” allowing the light of the sharp sword of the word of God to divide and qualify my heart. My lifelong prayer has been “purify my heart that I may see God.” In this season of waiting for the horsey to come up again as it seems the merry-go-round will never end, I have been captivated by this Spring’s blooms. 

I call my backyard an oasis in the Texas desert Yesterday, as I was swinging admiring the red lilies singing their song of worship (the Bible says rocks worship so I think flowers must too) I paused to be present in the moment and smile. It took awhile but the yellow roses finally have bloomed. The gardenias opened after the rain. 

My song, “God is going to turn it all around… just wait and see. He makes everything beautiful in his time.” 

Memorial Day. Remembering what Jesus did. He has answered my prayers in the past. He is answering my prayers even in this season. I want to remember to smile. 
Blessings to you to smile today!!!
The irony of age is the gift it brings comes with The irony of age is the gift it brings comes with the wear and tare on the body sporting its story. My momma has lots of stories. 

She has wondered often of late, “Why am I still here?” Maybe because no one can pray her prayers for her family like she can. She prays from a place of authority because of where she has been, what she has seen, and the power of one who has overcome. 

We have had lots of conversations of late looking for the good in the reality of her life and in the stories. 

The resilience of a woman who chooses to trust God even on days she can’t see Him or He seems so far away. 
The assurance that her eternal home will be pain free creates a longing to see His face.
The dependence on His strength every time she takes a step and gratitude on successful ventures. 
The sunrise on yet another dark night. 

May this Mother’s Day be a day to celebrate the little wins, a day to honor and love and rise up to call her a blessing to so many of us. I may be her only child by birth but her heart has many spiritual sons and daughters that she has carried close to her heart in compassion and prayer. 

#happymothersday #lifelongfriends #notoldjustvintage
Our baby girl made it!!! A goal achieved, a dream Our baby girl made it!!! A goal achieved, a dream come true. 😭😍

Today Katrina started her new job as a nurse practitioner. It was a long journey through grad school working, studying, birthing little humans, and being a rock star at life!!! 

I cried. I cried with joy for victory. I cried with a mother’s delightful pride for all those days I wondered if I was raising a successful human. I cried remembering that strong-willed four year old who was a force to be reckoned with and who made me cry even then. I cried remembering those conversations about what a future in medicine could look like as she pondered her future while in TAMS. 

But I also smiled. I smiled because I get to be in her life. I smiled because I get to be her momma. I smiled because in remembering the years, the hours, the moments before today, I was a witness to a story that could only have been crafted in the heart of God when He said, “I will make Katrina. She will be good. She will be mine.” 

The best thing is her story is not over and is still unfolding as I watch her life mission maturing to be a messenger of healing, to be a light to people in some of their darkest hours, to change worlds one kind faith filled word at a time. #celebrating
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01Are you growing?

It has been said, “You are either growing or dying.”  It doesn’t matter if you are a plant or a person.  The motions of human growth take being intentional, being self-aware, being self-motivated, and most of all a plan.  As a friend, I have to ask how are you growing spiritually in your faith? in grace? in your love of Jesus Christ? 

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02Why grow with me?

Glad you asked.  It is the passion of my heart that all would know:  “You are wanted and loved by a Living God. Nothing you have done or believe changes the fact that the whole world revolves around His reach for your heart.”   To make that happen, I provide catalysts for growing spiritually to live wholehearted with conditions, tools, beliefs, and structures for heart healing to happen by writing, speaking, teaching, and one-on-one coaching/counseling.

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03Do you need Heart-Care to Grow?

Heart-Care will change your life. Taking care of the most important part of you, your innermost self, your heart, will increase your overall sense of spiritual well-being creating hope and increase your ability to give and receive love.  Heart-Care is a Holy Spirit led counseling session that goes beyond talking about an issue to unlocking the pain of an issue to experience true healing, freedom, and spiritual growth.

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GROWING HEART GARDENS

My Growing Heart Garden




Truth from one heart to another, sprinkled with sunshine and love, can be like vegetables, not always your favorite but good for you. I promise some flowers, so you see what the Kings sees. I will share the juicy, spicey, goodness of nutrient-laded soul food picked from the soil of a heart that believes in the process of being made whole.
From my heart garden to yours,...

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From my Heart Garden

"I pray that the eyes of our heart may be opened to know the hope that is ours to be whole as He is Holy and the understanding to grasp the glorious life that can be ours when we believe that we are the Beloved of the King."
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“…let our gardener, God, landscape you with the WORD, making a SALVATION-GARDEN of your life.” James 1:21 MSG

Let’s “Grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus” TOGETHER!!   I Peter 3:18

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