- Leading my girls in paintball...here we go.. love it... but im scared. :) Go
- Alright hon so you're retired im not. why dont u move over... im late. Go
- Almost about to go on air in beattyville Kentucky! yeeeeehaw haha Go
- Winter Gathering is on for January 19-21, 2006 -
The Gathering is a weekend beginning Thursday through Saturday to inspire girls to love the Lord with all their hearts and to encourage them to be keepers at home.
I felt the pressure especially in my teen years from many that the “right thing” to do is to leave home at the age of eighteen like everyone else had and start my “education” even if I had no desire for this outside of my home. I knew this was not God’s will for my life and I was encouraged by my parents to seek God’s will above others, for my life.
This has lead me to desire a ministry for young ladies. I feel God has given me a life message to encourage young ladies that the highest calling in the world is at home right now and into the future.
This thought and idea is not my own but has come from the Bible as it talks about older woman teaching the younger woman in Titus 2:3-5 “That they may teach the young woman….to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home”
Last year God blessed this precious “Gathering” of Young Ladies and Mom’s with His special kind of blessing. Through the speaking, singing and just everything I really felt God’s presence and He did some really amazing things in hearts and lives, including my own.
A young lady that came last year told me “The Winter Gathering” changed my life!”
And then another told me a couple days ago “I learnt good things at the “Gathering” that I found myself thinking about all throughout the year!”
This thought inspired me to go ahead with all the work and preparations for “The Winter Gathering 2006″ to see what God would teach us through His Word for this next year in our lives…
“Now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think according to the power that worketh in us” Eph. 3:20
Email me if you if you have any questions – hollypierpont@gmail.com
John 10:10
“I am come…..so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”
I have been thinking about the verse in John a lot lately. Jesus Christ came in the form of an innocent baby and completely won the victory over death. What an awesome, non-comprehensible paradox of love!
Tomorrow, (Christmas Eve!) we leave early for Grandma and Grandpa Pierpont’s house. It’s their 50th wedding Anniversary!!! It’s definitely something to celebrate as so many couples now days don’t last long at all much less 50 years! They have surly been examples to their children and Grandchildren of faithfulness and love not just to each other but also to God. Their story is so cute of how they met at a Sunday school picnic….
I just want to list some of my favorite Christmas memories:
Christmas Eve candle light service and the luminaries that lined the walk up to our old Church in the country, our second Christmas tree that we put on the porch of our country home in Ohio to welcome our family (I would sit out there by the light of the tree and wait for them to arrive), The “Christmas Star” Dad made and risked his life to hang in the gable end of our barn one Christmas, the “charley brown Christmas tree” Kyle cut for us our hardest Christmas ever but has now become a distant fun memory ( we put the lights on it and it fell over), peppermint patties from Jane, the Beautiful Christmas wreath Mom got we hung on the house and could see from town ( I remember thinking it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen),the small town Christmas pageant in the town hall of Chesterville, getting the tree and watching the lady make our wreath with fragrant pine and plaid Christmas bows, sledding on a clear, starry night to the sound of the train whistle, listening to “The Polor Express” read by Dad, listening to my pop up book “The Night Before Christmas” read on Christmas Eve, a craft show called “Christmas In The Country” this has to be one of my favorite memories of all time we would go to this old barn filled with country crafts and we would walk through and drink hot mulled cider, setting out the manger scene every Christmas in the bay window of the parsonage…
Make a memory this Christmas and I hope everyone has a beautiful love filled day.
Merry Christmas,
Holly Allene Pierpont
“And Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2:19
Currently Watching
An Avonlea Christmas
Tonight we all gathered round in the living room and watched this movie. It was so cute! I loved it. It had so many good Christmassy/homey scenes and the country scenery of Avonlea was beautiful. So….if you can this is a must see in my opinion before Christmas.
I have always loved these “Tales from Avonlea” so when Dad brought this home tonight I was so happy. It was a great way to end Hannah’s Birthday. I have always wanted to go to PEI so this summer when we went to Mackinac it was like I was there! Really it was….
Anyway…today I woke and read a few verses from Luke 1. That is a beautiful chapter of the Bible. Something about a promise of Hope in a world full of Sin is a very beautiful thing to me.
I am working hard on a quilt for my Grandma Allene. It’s a wall hanging and I really need to get it done before she comes for Christmas. She really has no idea about it and doesn’t even really know I can quilt much. It’s really neat too because my great Granny, the one that lived in Kentucky, loved to quilt. And she was so happy and proud, I mean really happy and really proud when I told her I was quilting just a little. I would have definitely given one of my quilts to her this Christmas because her Birthday is Christmas day and all but she is now gone. I guess the next one who will really know the meaning of how special it is is my Grandma Allene. It skipped a generation and hit me. I love to quilt…Grandma even tells me that Great Granny left me some of her fabrics she had so I can quilt a very special quilt on of these days in her memory…she lived very simply, worked very hard and loved everyone very, very much. I can’t seem to quilt unless I think of her and her loving spirit and kind ways…
- Merry Christmas -
We were in the GAP store and I needed to try some clothes on. Hope was with me. As I was trying on clothes Hope was playing around and looking at herself in the mirror.
All the sudden she began to sing to the top of her lungs a song she had heard in the car. “Blessed be the name of the Lord! Blessed be the name of the Lord!” She kept repeating that same phrase over and over again as loud as she could sing it.
I was immediately embarrassed wondering what the other people in the dressing room thought of us. I told her to stop she wouldn’t she just kept singing loud with a smile on her face. “Blessed be the name of the Lord!”
I couldn’t help but think of this little incident around this time of year at Christmas when it seems everyone wants to take that precious Name out of everything, even His own birthday.
I have been made to think about what that name really means to me…such happiness and joy…freedom from bondage to sin…. my only hope in this hopeless world…that name Jesus set this captive free. That name means life to me, take it away and you take everything from me! He is what I live for!!!
Why wouldn’t we sing it to the top of our lungs! I am determined not to be ashamed of the Name of my Lord Christ this Christmas. So, maybe Target doesn’t say “Merry Christmas” they need Him the very most in my opinion and it’s our duty to tell them about that blessed Name, as Hope would sing to the top of her little lungs.
Merry Christmas!
I have been really made to think about a lot of things lately. God has really been pushing me and teaching me. Which it seems to happen a lot to me. When it comes down to the most important area of my life (Jesus Christ, of course) and living holiness I usually come out and voice my strong opinion. I can’t tell you how many times I have done this very thing. Which I think is good for me.
I have really been challenged to see where I stand on some very important issues in life once again and I voice my thoughts. I see it’s God’s way of making me even stronger in what I really believe.
I want to be a woman of love and kindness. Just like 1 John 3 says we are to be if we are Christians. But don’t get me wrong I don’t want to be a luke-warm nothing Christian who doesn’t believe anything about anything and if challenged they stand silent. Too many who already do that today, sadly.
When I look around me at all the filth I see deluding “Christianity” I ask God to give me an undivided heart. I want to seek Him with all my heart. It scares me that I could stray from loving Him and thus miss the very happiest and satisfying thing in my life.
So help me God! I want to “take the whole armour of God, that [I] might be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand” (Eph. 6:13)
