Vonda Jensen (Utah, USA)

October 29, 2010 at 6:28pm

Hello everyone everywhere!! My name is Vonda Jensen and I am a 27 year old wife and mother. My husband and I have been together for 11 years now. He has taught me that I can have the life that I want if I am willing to create it. I have two wonderful and amazing children who are my hero’s and biggest inspirations in this life. I am child number nine out of a family of thirteen children. Growing up in a huge family had many challenges and blessings. My siblings have become my friends and teachers and have taught me more than they realize. It is because of my family that I am the woman that I am today. It is because of the many lessons I learned growing up that I do my best to love fully, forgive quickly and to never give up on those that matter the most to me.

I chose to take my picture in the mountains here in Utah. The picture is of Fish Lake, in the Fish Lake National Forest. I took this photo from a beautiful view point above the lake. I chose this location because I love the way that it makes me feel. It inspires me with all of it’s beauty. When I sit up on this point and see the vast beauty below, I can not deny a power higher than myself. When I go to the mountains and look around I can’t help but realize how small I really am in this big world. I am not sure why feeling so small is inspirational but it is. Maybe it is because you know you are small but you can do so much good or so much damage, and that in itself is a powerful feeling. It is an amazing feeling to sit there and realize how fragile life is and yet how strong it can be too. For me it is an immensely overwhelming feeling. I love to feel the breeze coming up the cliff side, to smell the earth, to hear a kind of silence that this fast pace world has forgotten about. A silence that we no longer appreciate. When I sit there, I can be me. There is no one to judge you. There is no tv, or radio telling you that you need to change this or that about you in order to fit in. In this moment nothing matters except for your own thoughts. When I sit there I am inspired, at peace, and in love with the beauty around me!

What do I feel is the most important thing that I have learned in life?? I would say love and family. Having experienced more than one circumstance in life that has brought me close to death, I realized in those moments the meaning to my life. When you are laying in a hospital thinking that this could be the end for you, you don’t think about the house you’ll never build or the car you’ll never get to own, you think about your loved ones. You think about how things will change without you around and how you wish you could have told the people you loved that you loved them more often than you did. You think about the friend that you lost touch with and how you wish you hadn’t. You realize that the most important thing in life is to build strong relationships and continue to nurture them. So my answer is definitely LOVE!

I hope you all enjoyed learning a little about who I am. I am so excited for this journals journey and I can’t wait to see what everyone else adds to it.

Much Love, Vonda

Fish Lake National Park, Utah


Mayfield, Utah

Picture By: Vonda Jensen (Utah)