- Shopping with Gracie, gingerbread latte, smelling the candles at bath & body balsam fir is my favorite! Go
- BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY!! I think I want to go for a good run with my favorite music. Go
- I missed school today and I was gonna get my hair done while I was there... so Holly's gonna do it herself! :) Go
I was reading today’s broadcast from Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Demoss. I would strongly recommend subscribing to that feed and reading it everyday, girls!! It is so sound and true. And to tell you the truth there are few things out there today that are really going to encourage you and be good for you. I find that when I go there and read her broadcast it is exactly what I needed to hear.
I have resloutions! And “there ain’t nothing that can’t be done by me and God” or just God, through me. 
I was thinking today about my # 1 priority. My walk with Jesus. These were the thoughts that ran through my mind. “But it’s so hard! Sometimes it just takes so much work it seems to keep my relationship with the Lord hot, vital, going, alive!” You know what I mean? Sometimes it just seems easier to simply…. be lazy. Slack off… not read the Word and dig hard for His truths. Seek him out. Trust Him wholly. Sometimes it just seems easier to complain. To rely on my strength. Seems… but that’s not right or true.
I thought about what people who are married always say, “It takes work!” “You have to work on your relationship” That is true in this as well! We have to work on our relationship with our Lord. We have to put time and effort into the ones that we love and care for. If we care about our relationship with the Lord we must take the time to work on it. We must be diligent to pray and seek His face. It says that if we seek Him we will find Him!
I have a few resolutions:
1. Work on my Ultimate Relationship – make it number one!
2. Read more Missionary biographies. Less of other non-important things.
3. Visit the widows/ shut in’s in our church with the sisters.
4. Get involved in the crises pregnancy center at my church. (Excited about this.)
5. Read Johnny Cash’s biography. (Starting this today) Love that guy.
6. Update my blog post’s daily! (BIG HUGE CHALLENGE FOR ME!)
More I am sure, just can’t think of ones right now or not willing to share here
God has been good to me this year. I thank Him for leading me and guiding me and telling me to trust Him, over and over and over again! I am excited about this New Year because I know who holds my future! It’s me and God. “He’s my Saviour, He’s my Friend … .” Whatever it is, it will be good.
WELCOME 2009
Well, I am excited to announce that I am through some major steps in the process of becoming a Flight Attendant with Northwest/Delta Airlines.
I got in touch with one of my godly friends, Jessica Cenzer, and asked her some pointed questions about the whole idea. She has been a Flight Attendant for 3 years now and was very helpful! She answered them. I noticed that there was an “Open House” on the internet that I would need to attend. I did on the 5th of this month. There was probably about 80 people at this open house trying out for the positions. I had to speak in front of the group, as we all did, and things went well. They told us that after the break and we came back there would be a list outside the door posted of ones picked for the interview. There were about 12 picked to interview out of 80. I saw my name was on the list! I took this as another sign from the Lord as His direction.
While I was there I was able to meet Tiffany Davis. A girl that I had met before in ministry. She is a really sweet Christian girl. It was so neat for us both to be there together.
The next step! I am looking forward to training that I I hear may be in March. We will be flying out to Memphis, TN for three weeks of intense training. If that goes well I will officially be a Flight Attendant!
As I let people know, I am met with cares, concerns and congratulations. All for which I am thankful! As a lot of concerns have come from those I love I am thankful for … But I want you all to know I have thought about this. I have prayed about this. And prayed about this. And taken godly counsel about this. And prayed about this! I take my relationship with my Lord seriously. I am concerned about my relationship with the Lord as I have always been in any situation. I want it to be strong. I know I have weaknesses and I want to humbly ask the Lord for help daily. I need Him so much.
Last night I was thinking and praying I came across some scripture that I know was from the Lord and gave me confidence in His power to keep me.
Proverbs 2
2:1 My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways.
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden [1] woman,
from the adulteress [2] with her smooth words,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed; [3]
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.20 So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
This gave me a peace in my heart as I went to bed last night. I realize there will be things about this job that will take a strong Christian to handle. I know that. But again I want you all to know I HAVE thought about the good AND the BAD. I have faced these thoughts already with my parents and most of all with my Lord. But, l am confident that He will keep in me in the paths He has opened up for me.
Blessings to you all, my friends, and thank you for your sweet notes of encouragement to me about this! Will keep you updated…. thanks for caring.
The little brothers and sisters are already in the Christmas Spirit this year! Talk about it being early. Yeah. Hope is playing the music all the time around the house. She is lighting candles. Today she stuck sticky snowflakes on the window! It DID spit snow today so I guess she felt like it was time. The thing is it’s been getting me into the Christmas Spirit early too! Aah!!! I have this thing that it has to be after Thanksgiving… and that is when I really will begin to allow myself to enjoy Christmas. I have plans to light my Christmas Candle. It smells like pine needles! I love it. I am looking forward to lighting it…. later. I went to Joann Fabrics with Mom the other day and found some of the CUTEST Green and Mulberry colored pillar candles. They have a swirly 3D design on them too and a ribbon tied around them. They were on clearance. So, of course, I got them. I have had a pillar holder in my room I got for 3 dollars last year. I finally filled it!
Yesterday, at church, I noticed while sitting there, that a girl I had been praying for for some time, walked into church. I was happy. I met with her before and she was very much in the grip of the enemy. I just happened to come across her in the hall after church and asked her how she was doing. She said she wanted to ask me a question. She wanted to know how she could be saved. I was so shocked and happy. I showed her how to become a Christian and she wanted to invite Jesus into her heart. I was so happy. God had won a victory in her life. I could see it in her eyes as she left.
That is the 3rd girl I have been able to lead to Jesus in this year! It seems God is bringing girls to me! I hope that He will continue to do so. It’s so happy and fulfilling to know that you can be such a part of God’s plan. Yet knowing it has nothing to do with me!
Yesterday was a good Sunday. It was a full Sunday and when it was time to sleep and slept well! I taught Sunday school and I so enjoy doing that. The little kids that come in are so cute and sweet and I just want to open up their hearts and put a love for Jesus in there! I really, really do. Yet I know God loves them more than I do and He is the one that will do that.
I sang a song and the choir backed me up! That was a neat experience. I really enjoyed that. As I sang the choir seemed to get louder and louder and than at the end of the song I was singing with all my might and they were too behind me .. it was a neat time of worshipping Jesus. I had a good day. Two things I love with all my heart…. singing and Jesus. Put those two together and you have powerful thing. You can hear it here… it was a little different from this one but… this is the song.
It’s so true! We all have the same needs of our hearts… some go to this some got to that to fill it up. But the ones who find Jesus… find it! Praise His Name.
Well, I am off to finish a scarf I am knitting. It’s getting to be the time I really need it!
I thought this picture that my mom took of myself and my little sister Hope perfectly described my websites meaning and header… this is my motto for this site. “Encouraging young ladies to walk in the Sunshine on the path of Light together”.
As you know this is from the verse… 1 John 1:7 “If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His son cleanseth us from all sin”
God’s Words are so true…
Hey, I have been busy! But no excuse for not updating here. Today was a rainy day. Rainy days are good days too. Brother Chuk was here today! It’s been so good to have him home for just a little bit… before he heads back to WI.:(
Tonight I am studying my Sunday school lesson. Tomorrow I teach Sunday school. I will be the Bible teacher from now on for them. It’s the little, little kids so…. I will have to do hand stands to try and keep their attention… we shall see how do. Well, not hand stands. But you know…. So tomorrow one of my favorite Bible lessons ever, I get to tell… Isaac and Rebekah. Love it. My favorite.
Last Sunday the girls and myself had a concert at Higgins Lake Baptist church where my Uncle Kevin and his family live. We had a great time there singing, sharing our testimonies, visiting with the people and our family. Great ministry.
This week I spoke for the girls in the youth group about loving Jesus. I really enjoyed doing that and pouring my heart out to them about Him. I also gave a report to the Ladies Missionary Aid group at our church of our trip to Kentucky. We sang for them and they made it a Kentucky theme night. Such a cute idea. We gave our testimonies, sang, I gave a report and we showed our slide show. The ladies were so sweet and listened and laughed. I really enjoyed doing that.
So, it’s been a full week of ministry…. and more abounds… coming up ahead. Tonight, I am listening to the song “But For The Grace Of God” Hope and I are singing it together here in our room. Can’t be more true of my heart right now. Sometimes I look at others and think others lives are SO messed up! And then I remember… there go I, but for the grace of God…
goodnight friends… sleep well.
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Ok, THIS is what I am going for. I want to knit this blanket. This exact yarn is on the way. So if I can pull it off… and I am determined to… then I will have knitted a blanket going for 247$. Proof “Design Public” Can you believe it. I just love this style. Chic is what I call it. Perfect for those football games this fall
just the other day when I was in a little tiny historic village we visited as a family. The village was cute and a little river ran along the edges of town. We found what appeared to us to be a candy/toy store from where we peeked in from the sidewalk. So, we all walked in. They had those big glass jars of candies.. lot’s of jars of candies. They even had chocolate covered coffee beans. Those are a MUST have, I might add. 
Anyway, I was looking around when I saw this big, chunky knit, blanket. It caught my eye (and once my eye is “caught” it’s hard forget about what caught it . It was clover/dusty green in color. I wanted it. The price being marked at 84$ I thought better. But, I LOVED it, therefore not being able to forget it! The color was so cute though I don’t usually ever get anything in that color. I wanted THAT color. It was so soft. And just kinda chic. I thought.
Tonight I finally found what I think they used to make this blanket! I have already ordered it! I can’t wait. I ordered it from a small little shop in Tivoli, New York. They really don’t have bad prices either. So, with the days turning cooler and the quickly coming fall season I will be eagerly anticipating the arrival of my soft, warm, wool yarn in the color “clover” from the little shop on Broadway Street.
A Few Of Holly’s Favorite Things: Vera Bradley & Tiffany’s
Date: Thursday August 28, 2008Posted in: My Journal
Under my umbrella, ella, ella, A A A …. Ok, sorry.. *clearing my throat* One little thing I love is … Vera Bradley and the color pink, as you might have been able to pick up on. I just do. But Vera .. Cute stuff. My dear sweet sister in law Elizabeth bought me this umbrella. It matches the Vera Bradley beach bag I also own. VERY Vera Cute… anyway I wanted to share that with you tonight. We all have favorite things… this would be one of mine.
Oh and while I am at it. The necklace I have on in the picture? Is my first “Tiffany’s”. My dear sweet family I work for in Hindale, IL. They fly me back a few times to stay at their house… well it was my birthday and they brought out this box! I opened it to find a beautiful cross necklace. So now I am a fan of “Tiffany’s” too
Whenever I see a picture with an umbrella I am reminded of the many blessings in my life, I don’t know why. I have them raining down around all the time! Do you ever feel like He has been too good? Like you don’t deserve all the good things He showers down upon you? You need an umbrella because you are overwhelmed? God has been so good to me. Has He been good to you? I know He has. He is good to all. Reminds me of the song “God is goood, all the time. He put this song of praise in this heart of mine. God is good, God is good all the time….”
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Do I Wildly Share Jesus With Everyone I meet? Is It REALLY Important? If So? Why Don’t I?
Today on my way into my Dad’s study to study… my first courses from Moody! Which I love doing I might add. It is challanging but great… I turned the radio on. A speaker came on at the time I didn’t know but it was Lee Strobel. He was on focus on the family. I think you should listen to this guys message if you can. It was so good. He was talking about the importance of telling others about Jesus. It inspired me. And as I drove the car I found tears blinding my vision as I realized my lack in this area. I so want to be better at this.
One of his quotes I will quote from his sermon. He was an editor with the Chicago Tribune. He said, “I went into my boss one day and told him that I was a different person now… I had become a Christian and I was a follower of Jesus.” He said, “My boss looked at me and it looked like his cigar was gonna fall out of his mouth all he could say was ‘Well I’ll be damned’ he said I looked at him and said actually you don’t have to be!”
God had changed his life and he has so many interesting stories of how he has shared Christ with others. It will inspire you to share Christ in any way that you can, however you can. Isn’t it awesome what God will do with someone out to prove HE is false!?? Check out www.focusonthefamily.com
Tomorrow night will be the start of the young ladies bible/book study I have wanted to start for a while with some girls in the church. We will be going through the book by Nancy DeMoss “Lies Young Women Believe” I have looked over this book and have really liked it. I think it really speaks truth. Some things that the Lord has been showing me lately is that there are so many lies/half truths/junk that we allow into our minds throughout the day. We need to return to the Truth. We need God’s truth daily. I know if I need that others would as well. So I am excited about starting this tomorrow night!
Today my first courses from Moody Bible Institute should be coming. I am enrolled in the Independent Studies program. I am so excited about this and it’s been something I have wanted to do for a long time. I am so glad that I can start this and be learning about God’s Word. That’s my main goal. I was reading today in the Word in Psalms 77 I believe. About teaching the next generations about God. Telling our children the stories about how great our God is. I believe that learning the Word is so important for so many reasons. One of which is the most sweet to think about for me. One day gathering my children around me to teach them about God’s Word. Speaking the truth into their hearts and lives. Right now it will be a big help to me to know the Word and to be able to speak and teach it more clearly as I have a better understanding of it. I am excited.
Today, I am working at Lowes hardware store. I am thankful for this job that God has given me. Though I would never have thought that I would go from working in a nail spa to a hardware store — it’s been something that God has opened up and I am grateful for the lessons I continue to learn from working there. I only work part time or a little less than part time and I am so glad for the hours. I still have a life! Speaking of which I need to get ready to go to work….
I want to share a little tip that has helped me in my quiet times with Jesus in the morning. I try to pray as well as read my Bible, (of course) and sometimes if I haven’t made it up early enough to beat everyone else it’s a little hard to think about praying so… writing my prayers down is something I have tried to do for a while. Though I am not as faithful as I want to be I have done if for a few years now.
I love these little journals. They are called “Moleskine”. My dear Brother Kyle got me my first one for my birthday. And I loved it. I like the mini size one. It’s perfect size for me. I have so many thoughts prayers in this little black book. I love to take it out and look through them. I am revived in my walk. And lately tears came to my eyes at how GOOD God has been to me! I have written out prayers when I was going through very happy times in my life and… at one of the hardest times in my life when I so needed His direction. I have prayers from the green hills of New Zealand and to driving through Mexico on a bus (and you can tell by my messing handwriting as I wrote out a prayer).
These are so special to me now! I look back and I am encouraged when I doubt the faithfulness of my God I am rubuked by my own words and by God’s hand of faithfulness always on my life. I would love to write a few out here one day. So, whatever you do to make your quiet times special I think you should have a journal and write out your prayers to God. It’s so worth it! Jim Elloit did this and his writings and openess always encourage me. I am amazed at God’s work in his life. I would never have known half of the awesome work God did do in His life had he not taken the time to write them down. I am glad he did. He is my hero.
Get a journal and write your prayers down! It will AMAZE you at the faithfulness of your awesome God! And how many prayers He has answered in your life. Yes it will because He is faithful.
