by Jamie Holloway | Apr 7, 2021 | Books/Music, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
I am not a huge sports fan. However, I love reading memoirs of people men and women who have challenges and work through them and live well anyway. Daniel Ponce De Leon’s story is just like that. He sustained a fractured skull and worked hard to achieve his...
by Jamie Holloway | Apr 5, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I just finished the book The Miracle Collectors by Joan Luisa Hill and Katie Mahon. I appreciated their perspective of looking at miracles from all sides and from different religions. I believe in miracles. I have experienced my own miracles. This book is...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 29, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I love FBI, CIA, Secret Service type of books. When it is combined with a romance and my Christian beliefs it is even better. Blackburn’s newest book Unknown Threat focuses on 5 Secret Service men, three of them murdered and 2 of them alive. The two that survived a...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 16, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I love reading Joyce Meyer’s commentaries on different books of the Bible. This time I read Philippians. I love how she broke up the scriptures and made each chapter like a devotional. I love how she writes, and I especially love her no nonsense approach to...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 10, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Have you ever read a book that tore your heart out and then healed it at the same time? Kait Warman’s book Thank You For Rejecting Me is that book for me. Feelings of rejection and abandonment have been a theme running in my life since I was born. I knew I...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 9, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
This weekend I got lost in a novel. The novel I chose for this weekend’s reading experience is Facing the Dawn by Cynthia Ruchti. Be prepared to have Kleenix nearby because this novel is full of sadness of Mara a woman who lost her husband to an accident in Uganda and...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 4, 2021 | Books/Music, Products I Love, The Magnificent Journey
If you read my post on the fruit of the spirit self-control/self-discipline I mentioned journal writing. I received Joyce Meyer’s journal “The Confident Woman Journal” and I know I will be using this in my intentional journaling. The journal style is not my favorite....
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 10, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I love reading mysteries. I love getting lost in a story. Patricia Bradley’s newest book “Obsession” is a great book to get lost in. I use reading to keep my mind off of having a pain day or night. I also use it when I wake up in the middle of the night with choking...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 28, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Proverbs is one of the books that I use as reference when I want to gain wisdom and insight into how God wants me to live my life. Joyce Meyer commentary on Proverbs goes deeper into Proverbs in her no-nonsense approach and blunt insights that I value. I love...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 21, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have always thought music connects us. It is a way for us to express our emotions. Those emotions that overwhelm and consume us. Music has helped me grieve. In the book by Minnie Drake “The Lost Love Song” this novel explores this idea by taking us on a...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 10, 2021 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
In December I started a book on prayer by Caroline Myss called Intimate Conversations with the Divine. Myss is a Catholic and the way she prays is beautiful and like she talks to God all the time with grace, confidence, and intimacy I wish I had when I pray. It is a...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 7, 2021 | Books/Music, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
The first book I finished for 2021 is a memoir by Katherine and Jay Wolf. I got this book from the library because the title intrigued me. Suffering strong, what a thought! Below is a quote that struck me while reading this book: “Life with disabilities has...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 23, 2020 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Recently, I have been reading a book by Jeff D. Reeter financial advisor for North Western Mutual in which he owns. I like to read books from smart women and men who have wisely invested and pursed life with intention including their business, family,...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 12, 2020 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
2020 has been a strange year. This year I have read over 1000 books. I have no idea how that happened. I have never done this before. What helped me read so many books were using my Kindle. Last Christmas I got a Kindle Fire. I love it. I use it all the time. I...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 7, 2020 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
This year I discovered that I like reading books on my Kindle and so I have been indulging in my new device. I was not sure I would like to read from a Kindle. I still love regular books. The smell of the paper, the feel of the paper in my hands, the feel of turning...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 5, 2020 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I had three books to read before the end of 2020, after reading The Return from Nicholas Sparks, I now have two books left for the year. I was not disappointed in this newest novel by Sparks. His books are full of love, pain, emotions, conflict, mystery, and...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 25, 2020 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I am not a big fan of books about the end times. The reason why is because we truly do not know when Jesus will be coming back. Jesus said that we will not know the time or place when He will come back and take us to be with Him. I believe this with my whole...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 22, 2020 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I use reading as part of my pain management routine. It gets my mind off my painful joints and stoma. I love reading novels that have strong women and have a mystery theme. The Price of Valor by Susan May Warren was not a disappointment. I got lost in the story of a...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 8, 2020 | Books/Music
I love reading novels with strong women. I even love reading historical novels about strong women. The Love Note is a historical type of romance novel that features a strong woman who wants to be a doctor in 1865. I love that. I’m not going to ruin the story by...
by Jamie Holloway | Apr 16, 2019 | Books/Music, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
Beauty, what is it? How do you define beauty? For me, I haven’t been able to see myself as beautiful but I do know what makes me go oh that is so beautiful. In Rebecca Friedlander’s book “Finding Beautiful: Discovering Authentic Beauty Around the World”...
by Jamie Holloway | Apr 6, 2019 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Victoria Osteen had me hooked in her new book Exceptionally You, when she stated in her introduction that she had thoughts of “is it worth it?”. I have been having those same thoughts concerning my autoimmune issues and my goals of weight loss and...
by Jamie Holloway | Apr 4, 2019 | Books/Music, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
A Brave Face is a powerful story about one woman who saw a little girls picture from Iraq who was burned from a bombing and decided to help that little girl. I am moved with the generosity of Barbara Marlowe and her devotion to Teeba. I’m also in...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 30, 2019 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Prayer, that constant struggle I feel every time I try to communicate with God. I don’t feel adequate. I don’t use flowery words. I can’t come up with what to say. I feel absurd. I feel powerless. I feel doubt. I feel a whole slew of emotions while I am trying to...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 25, 2019 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoy reading stories about great doctor and patient relationships. As a challenging patient, myself, I often times hear horror stories more than positive ones. In Rewire by Ajay K. Seth, you step into a world where a woman gets bitten by a...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 14, 2019 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Laughter is the best medicine. As I read “Get On Your Knee Replacements and Pray!” I kept thinking that even thought this book is written for those who are in retirement age it sure fits my life as a chronic babe. One theme throughout this book...
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