- Holly Allene : Is trying to be a good little girl! Santa's comin to town! Go
- I am looking forward to Flight Attendant training in a few months!! And thankful to the the Lord for His goodness... Go
- Is home from work and taking it easy! BABY it's COLLLLD outside! ;) Go
I like watching beauty pageants like “Miss America” with my sisters. Of course I don’t agree with all the things they do. But I notice these “put together” beautiful women when it comes time for the interview. They believe something! They have opinions. They have views. They have a passion for something. Whether it is getting a cure for cancer or helping abused children, they whole-heartedly believe in their cause. I also notice they will rattle on till the little bell goes off and its time for them to be quiet and let the next one go. They have something to say. If they didn’t do you think they would go anywhere near wearing that crown down the runway? If they stammered and stumbled around when asked a question they would be done and they would be out of the running. These girls have a ready answer! Yes they do. They believe in what they are talking about, they believe in what they are doing. They have firm beliefs and they are expected to stand for them, strongly and confidently.
Do you ever notice that so many Christians today are Christians in name but don’t really believe in anything?… (more…)
One evening as I lay in bed sound asleep I awoke suddenly. I woke at no sound or movement in the room I was just awakened. I quickly glanced at the digital clock that read it was somewhere around 3 in the morning in bright orange numbers. My bed was right beside my window. I looked out the window into the dark night sky alight with a million and one little stars that night. Pine Street, just below my window was quiet and I thought for sure I might be the only one awake this time of the night. As I watched the dark night sky moments after I awoke a star shot across the darkness in a blaze! Just as the bright starlight left a fading glow of brightness in its trail I fell back into deep sleep once again.
That next morning I remembered with great clarity being awake for just a moment to watch the night sky. While everyone else was sleeping I was awakened for no other reason then to watch the night sky for just a moment. My loving Father is like that He knew I wanted to see a shooting star. I am amazed to think that He would wake me just to show me again His wonders of creation and most of all that He loves me.
“…He that keepeth thee will not slumber” Psalm 121:3
- 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
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)
Ladies, I just found the neatest site. Dad found it and sent it to me.
Go here to Girl Talk
Carolyn Mahaney is a great Christian lady that writes really good sound Christian books. All three of her daughter’s believe strongly in courtship, modesty, motherhood, homemaking, etc. All her daughters are now married and it also tells their stories there on the site too.Very interesting! I know I will be going back to it often…hope it encourages you too.
I just finished my Amish book “The Preacher’s Daughter”. It was so good. I just love her writings and she cannot write fast enough for me to read. She has a homey, cozy way of writing that I just absolutely love like quilting bees and cooking in the warm kitchen on cold winter days. She write about making Christmas cookies for the neighbors and sleigh rides through the snow with quilts to keep them warm. And the amazing thing is that if you go to Amish Country in Ohio it is just as picturesque as she writes. Maybe you don’t like that kind of thing but I love it.
So I am now waiting anxiously for the next one to come out. She left it hanging and I cannot wait to read the next one.
Today is so beautiful! The sun is shining brightly from where I can see here at Front Desk.
Dad is speaking at a church in Ohio this weekend so I think we will be leaving early to take in the colors of fall on the back roads of Holmes County Ohio Amish Country. And maybe go to some of our old favorite craft stores too. So I am happy about that.
Out to enjoy this beautiful weekend and I hope that you do too! Enjoy those Fall colors adn when you do tell Him how much you love Him.
I wrote this paper for the Bible class I am taking…
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The Life of Ann Judson 1789-1826
By Holly A. Pierpont
Ann Hasseltine was born in the New England town of Bradford in 1789. She was the youngest of five children in her family.
Ann became a Christian in her teenage years. Her life changed after that. Her heart changed in what she loved and how she used her time. Ann was a woman of great maturity especially in the early years of her life.
Ann desired to be a missionary before she ever met Adoniram. Then she married Adoniram Judson on February 5, 1812. The very next day they sailed to Salem, Massachusetts for Calcutta, India.
Ann Hasseltine Judson was the very first woman missionary to go overseas. Everyone thought of her journey as romantic and exciting though it turned out to be very hard and extremely scary at times.
Ann helped translate the Gospel of Mathew into the Burmese language. She also held a Bible study with the woman there who had never once heard the gospel.
Ann Judson died on October 24th, 1826. She was 37 years old when she died. She died of a fever. Her little daughter, Maria also died six months after her own death. Baby Maria was two years old.
Ann and Adoniram are remembered as the founders of the Burmese church.
If it had not been for Ann’s courage and determination through the war their mission in Burma would have ended. Because of Ann’s faithfulness Adonirom survived imprisonment and went on to live another twenty-three years. He translated the whole Bible into Burmese language during this time. Adoniram went on to do great things for the Lord in Burma because his wife was faithful in helping and loving him.
Patrick Johnstone the author of Operation World said “The missionary zeal of the Baptist Church in Burma still reflects something of the spirit of the Judson’s”
What can we learn from Ann Judson’s life today?
Today I see so many things we can learn from the life of Ann Judson.
She was a woman of faithfulness. She was faithful to God till the end of her life. She was faithful to her husband. She literally kept him alive bringing him food while he was in prison.
She was a determined woman. She determined to do right. She was the first missionary woman to ever go overseas. So she had to be determined to go to a completely foreign land. She had to leave her family knowing she might never ever see them again in her lifetime.
She was a role model to other young woman especially after her death when they read her writings. Women all over began to write about her after her death. She was a woman of godliness and other woman wanted to be like her.
She obeyed God even when life was hard and she never gave up on her commitment to Christ. She never gave up when she could have and had the comforts of home and family.
Ann was very loving to her husband and family. Ann loved the ones she was called to minister to. Ann was buried under a tree while her Burmese converts wept over her grave. She was a very loving woman so she was naturally loved as well by those who knew her most.
Most of all Ann loved God. Her heart was completely given over to God and the people that she ministered to with her whole heart, her whole life. She only wanted the Lords will not her own. This is one of Ann’s prayers she prayed -
“Direct me in Thy service, and I ask no more. I would not choose my position of work, or place of labor. Only let me know Thy will, and I will readily comply”
Amy Carmichael is such an inspiration to me. Her life writings and poems encourage me to pursue Christ with all of my heart and convict me of my lack of love for Him.
Amy was a young woman who fully loved her Lord. She went to the mission field at a young age and stayed there till she died never to return to her familiar home and family again.
She truly found her only Love in Christ alone. She never married but gave her life to her ministry that is still going strong today in India for young girls….
My Lord seems to be showing me lately that it is Him alone I need for all time. He is the only one I will ever need from now and into eternity. He is the one we are to be satisfied in and Him alone. He seems to be teaching my heart this lately. I do believe that He will continue to have beautiful things for my life, a beautiful plan He will unfold but I must be satisfied in His Unfailing, Unfaltering, Holy, Perfect Love and in that alone need nothing else.
Amy Carmichael was just such a woman. She loved her Lord. She had a beautiful relationship with Him. She knew Him deep within her heart. One of her poems I will write out here inspires me to live in the love she was so fulfilled in.
My hearts deepest prayer:
“Father of spirits, this my earnest plea
I bring again and yet again to Thee
Fulfill me now with Love that I may know
A daily inflow, daily overflow.
For love — for love my Lord was crucified
With cords of love He bound me to His side
Pour through me now; I yield myself to Thee,
Love, blessed Love, do as Thou wilt with me.”
All this morning I have been reading her poems and wow, how inspiring! One more I have to type out here I just love so much and it is so true to my heart today.
“Gather my thoughts, they fitful roam
Like Children bent on foolish wandering
Or vanity of fruitless wayfaring
O call them Home.
See them they drift like the wind-scattered foam
Like wild sea birds they hither thither fly
And some sink low and others soar to high
O call them Home
My silence speaketh to Thee, but I roam
With my poor silly thought I know not where
That undistracted I may go to prayer
O call them Home”
Taken from the book “Toward Jerusalem” By Amy Carmichael
As young woman we are at times overcome by feelings. Sometimes we let our feelings rule how we act and respond to situations that arise. Our feelings are a part of the person that we are. Feelings like everything can be good thing and they can be wrongly used…
I was reading in one of my favorite books “You Are My Hiding Place” devotional readings by Amy Carmichael.
As I was reading Amy Carmichael explained of one evening while she was very, very sick she was looking out over the stars and mountain peaks. As the stars twinkled in the sky the clouds moved slowly in, the clouds hung low and covered the stars that shown and the beauty of the mountain was all hidden from her view.
She pointed out that though the beauty was hidden for a time the fact was the mountain and stars where still there. The mountain never moved. The stars never left. Just because she could not see the beauty because of present circumstances God’s creation never left.
Young ladies remember that just like those mountains, the God who created you has not left you here on earth to face it alone without Him. The God you hung the stars in the sky with his hand still holds you with that same all-powerful hand. The God you made you with a specific purpose in mind has not forgotten why He made you (Jer. 29:11). The God who loved you before time began will love you after all time stops. No matter how you feel today or tomorrow these are facts that will always remain, always.
“Our feelings do not affect God’s facts”
Surround yourself with God’s truth, His facts.
The facts are:
God loves you.
It doesn’t matter how we feel about that it’s a fact. God’s love never fails.
You can trust God with your future.
It does not matter how insecure you feel, He holds your future that’s a fact.
God knows what is best for us.
It does not matter how we feel about His leading.
His facts are what we have to live by.
“Feelings go and come but the “mountains” and “stars” abide”. Though the clouds hide the sun the fact is the sun is still shining.
My heart lately has been overflowing with how wonderful the Lord has been to me!
He has been so good and it reminds me of the verse in James Chapter 1 and verse17:
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights”!
When I first prayed for a laptop I knew I wanted it mainly for the ministry the Lord has called me to with Young Ladies. So as I prayed and God gave me my desire I feel so strongly that the Lord was confirming in my heart that if I want to serve Him he will bless that, He will give me everything I need to serve Him.
Not that I needed a laptop to serve Him of course I did not I knew that. But He wants me to serve Him with everything that I have and that is what I intend to do with this very new very beautiful machine that I have now.
I have this brand new I.B.M. ThinkPad. I thank the Lord everyday for His goodness to me.
As I dwell on the awesome wonder of the Lord and His ways I keep thinking “What did I do right?” And I believe the Lord keeps reminding me that it is nothing I have done it’s only the goodness of Him.
Because my Father is so good my life is blessed with too many blessings.
Thank You Lord.
