<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jessie Motley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jessie Rogers]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:24:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.jessierogerswrites.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Motley Musings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Catch up with brand new writings you can only find on jessiemotley.substack.com Head over to my “Motley Musings” publication for all the new stuff and plenty from the archives, too! Subscribe Here: https://jessiemotley.substack.com “Motley Musings” is a one-stop shop for the versatile writing of Jessie Motley.]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/motley-musings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69107c16f3f1f816a9914545</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:41:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_7a27e4d7e3944e5eb76068d101086f8c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_226,h_186,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gwendolyn is now available!]]></title><description><![CDATA[ORDER HERE: https://a.co/d/hjtZo51]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/gwendolyn-is-now-available</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6900c8e2ed0505ad4a2969cd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:48:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_35fb702ea05041639e9daea3a8b1ac88~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_677,h_994,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joan Curuthers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Link below: https://open.substack.com/pub/candlesandink/p/joan-curuthers?r=6dvsdo&#38;utm_medium=ios]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/joan-curuthers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68e03781e34d1363384ccc74</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:53:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_c0caebd71c18477a87cb3bbe7e4cd2a8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_800,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the Well]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rediscovered By Writing I want to write more than I want to talk, and that is "saying" a lot, because historically I am known as a...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/out-of-the-well</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68dbd1879a4988ac5116fb2e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:10:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_992da86639804356880709a58cf64760~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Christina]]></title><description><![CDATA[Letters Across Time September 11, 2025 Dear Christina,                 Charlie Kirk died yesterday. A true, great, one-of-a-kind American...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/dear-christina</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c5c4c01b086e7d4adc2c76</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:28:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_e328fc18aeaa420d8224df37ecac3414~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write Like Breathing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writing. It’s not so much about writing books as it is about just writing. It is the art of words, and letting them form or sometimes...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/write-like-breathing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c039b19838575ebd58f9f9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:36:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_9455e191ad3447b799d38aefc669bce0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Sorry, Younger Self.”]]></title><description><![CDATA[A curation of August journal excerpts… I feel like apologizing to my twenty-year-old self for not keeping my word to her. For not keeping...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/sorry-younger-self</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a4adff6aa481be493403a3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:01:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_98aa0c27c0164995afba4b9ccb679e1b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Field Notes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will I ever crawl out of the pool of invisibility? Will the people I try to love? And when will it cross the minds of the general,...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/field-notes-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a1250f6aa481be492af4e0</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:28:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_68956d906e804cd89bfa968f31528596~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Morning Place]]></title><description><![CDATA["The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness."   - William Shakespeare  I used to be a night owl. Or, so I thought… There is...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/my-morning-place</link><guid isPermaLink="false">682366f01e0418cdfe8f8d96</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 19:24:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_04ab3958182046768f723b730772a888~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring, is that you?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Psalm 55:6  The birds were abundant this morning. Singing, chirping, giving praise to Creator and celebrating the new hope of Spring,...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/spring-is-that-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67e7ea9ab0b8ce2ef32572ca</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:23:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_dd487b988c324e14bd96831140329836~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an original Prayer]]></title><description><![CDATA[What a creative, colorful, living, vibrant God we have the chance to fly, dance, draw, decorate, write, move, sing and compose our way...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/we-are-an-original-prayer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">670288334c610144d61c46f3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:08:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0fbf2fb707d64dacb751e13453adf577.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Motley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi. I’m Jessie Motley. Final Answer! Let me (try to) explain… I have gone by many names throughout my life, ministry, “career.” Between...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/mrs-motley</link><guid isPermaLink="false">662d426fd8b495a04cc1714c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:56:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_4522f3c7391c4f34bc255b5fe370bd67~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building My Tree House ]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Rock bottom became a solid foundation on which to rebuild my life."  J.K. Rowling I find myself newly encouraged to delve into my imagination more, to never  give up, to keep writing books; to dig my way out of poverty and obscurity with the persistence of good ideas. Here's to rebuilding.  Making beauty from chaos. Bringing my stories to life and unveiling the secrets of worlds within for the enjoyment of the wider world without. Here's to reinventing myself and not being "too old to make...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/building-my-tree-house</link><guid isPermaLink="false">661424165fa91e660d912cca</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:08:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_17c0e51aea834f23876403e18056363f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Acknowledgement &#38; Return]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oh, Writing. You are one of my dearest and most sympathetic, creative and adventurous friends! Why do I ignore you so? Deep down lies a...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/in-acknowledgement-and-return</link><guid isPermaLink="false">660d503a70712ad3a559fc65</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:00:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b9e5bf3d2fe4e27adf0dc9bc2e75cfd.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Songbird]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Short Story       She sat, all of seven years old, feet just reaching the pedals on the stool of the old, brown upright piano. She was a frail thing of pale skin and crackly blue eyes. Her pastor-grandfather left the tall, white doors of the church propped open for her every day after school. She was born to make music.       This. All of this; the piano, the solitude, the secret freedom to make compositions from the feelings in her heart and vivid pictures in her imagination, was an...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/songbird</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65819a5ab82b9825494178ee</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:29:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_1ca2734e051e4c0abcc3d107ebb9de70~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_732,h_488,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[To The Line]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Fight to the Finish (From my missionary blog, May 10, 2017...) To the Line. We have to beat the negativity to the line. We are in a...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/to-the-line</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6578281331c2f74ea8d864b1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:34:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_ee1baa8aff614e63a8941a4627c0ec58~mv2_d_6779_3218_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real Giant]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Love wins one face at a time Bruised faces. "Spotted" stomachs. Black eyes. Lack of supervision. Neglect. Abuse of every kind. Hunger...]]></description><link>https://www.jessiemotley.com/post/the-real-giant</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65709a41e812b16253d8f6e0</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:03:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0ef61_9f9d8483216e49f9be1ffb82ba981410~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_828,h_828,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jessie Rogers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Favorite Jacket]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was cold outside, for Florida. 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