by Jamie Holloway | Jan 3, 2019 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I haven’t read a children’s book in a long time so when I was offered to review a copy I said why not. I’m glad I did. I enjoyed watching Veggie Tales with my nieces and nephews when they were smaller and I am looking forward to when they start...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 2, 2019 | The Magnificent Journey
Another year has begun, more goals to set and time to choose another focus word for 2019. This years word is Regenerate. Regenerate means to transformation and being reborn. I have been talking with my counseling about getting back to a few things that I used to do...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 30, 2018 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, Exhilarating People, Products I Love, The Magnificent Journey
2018 is almost gone and it is time to start another year and set another intentional word for 2019. Reflection on my year of rebuilding is what is on my mind for this post. What have I learned, a lot. One, I give up too easily on myself. I have no...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 22, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I believe God speaks to me in my dreams. Although, at times I am mystified and wondering what he is trying to tell me and I have been more confused by dream interpreters. In Jennifer LeClaire’s book Decoding Your Dreams she helps her readers...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 19, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I found another book that I had a hard time putting down once I started reading. It is called Dead Sea Rising by Jerry B. Jenkins. I’m looking forward to when book two in the series comes out sometime in 2019. I find reading a helpful tool...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 8, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoy reading books about courageous people who with God fight a health crisis and learn so much more about God and themselves. In Darlene Zschech’s book The Golden Thread you learn a lot about her own journey with cancer. The entire book is...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 24, 2018 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Finally, it feels like I am making progress. In January, when I chose the word rebuild as my focus word for the year I didn’t realize all the challenges I would encounter. Those challenges include many thoughts of self-doubt, wondering if I am making the...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 23, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Spending time with God every morning is one of my self-care routines that I begin my day with. I use the Bible app mostly. I also enjoy devotional books one of those is Karen Moore’s new one called What a Great Word: a Year of Daily Devotions. I love that it is one...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 22, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I first listened to Chris Tomlin’s worship music with my sister after she picked me up for a trip. I never heard him before and I could tell that my sister enjoyed his music. I have to admit I did too. When I received the opportunity to read Chris...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 21, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have enjoyed a few of Eugene Peterson’s book, including The Message Bible that he put out, so I was excited to get to read his wife’s book Becoming Gertrude. I was not disappointed. I love the concept of cultivating spiritual friends that is used over and...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 20, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Warfare, spiritual warfare whenever I hear this I get a pit in my stomach. I’ve been taught about spiritual warfare between the angelic angels of God and Satan and his demons. I know in the end God wins, he will always win. Yet, the part I don’t like is...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 16, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have read some books that basically tell you to treat God as a vending machine. I was hoping while reading Robert Morris’ new book Beyond Blessed that he wouldn’t be saying the same old jargon I have heard and don’t believe. He didn’t. I really appreciated what...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 11, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I love reading stories where two different cultures meet and build a friendship. In Once We Were Strangers by Shawn Smucker this is the exact story you get. Shawn becomes friends with a muslim who came from Syria. Smucker is honest and real in this book about how...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 7, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have read a previous book by Mandy Hale, so I was excited to be able to read You Are Enough. I love that she shares her authentic story with her readers. I also appreciated that she shared her anxiety, depression, and pain with us and the active things...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 5, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I’m not familiar with a lot of the pastors who are preaching on TV, still I was intrigued by John W. Gray III title of his book Win From Within. He uses the story of Jacob and his fight with the angel and running from God as the premise of his own...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 26, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I love discovering a new author and a new genre of books to read. The author I discovered is Cara Putman and the genre is lawyer thrillers. What I liked is that Putman spins a believable tale of a young lawyer who happens to me named Jaime too and her quest to...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 24, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoy reading historical novels just as Lady of a Thousand Treasures by Sandra Byrd. In this amazing novel by Byrd she takes you on an intriguing journey through the world of rare, beautiful, and mysterious treasures that people collect. It is much...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 22, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Marriage is a sacred commitment between two people and God. I have never been married, but I have been blessed to watch several couples in my life who shown me what a real marriage is like. One of those couples were my parents, they were married for 50...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 19, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I’m not into watching the Miss USA pageants, so I wasn’t sure who Kristen Dalton Wolfe was when I was offered a chance to read her new book The Sparkle Effect. I’m glad that I took a chance and read her delightful book. This the type of book that would...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 17, 2018 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have been living with my chronic conditions for ten years now. It’s been challenging, painful, scary, and enlightening sometimes all at the same time. While reading Lisa A. Sniderman’s E-Book A Light in the Darkness I felt like we are kindred spirits....
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 10, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
One of my favorite things to do is to read a historical novel. I got a chance to read Lynn Austin’s new novel Legacy of Mercy. I dove right in and I had a hard time putting it down once I got started. It is romance, but it isn’t one of those gross types of...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 9, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Dealing with any type of addiction is not an easy process. One has to go deep and be willing to do the work. In Andrew J. Bauman’s book Stumbling Toward Wholeness he takes you on a journey through the story of the prodical son that is in Luke 15. I...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 5, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoy reading. I enjoy getting lost in a story and visualizing myself in the plot line of a great novel. Shelter of the Most High by Connilyn Cossette is one of those novels that you start reading and have a hard time putting down. Shelter of the Most...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 29, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
My day seems to go better when I spend time with God each morning. The days that I don’t, I don’t feel like myself. That is why I spend time with devotionals. One devotional that I just completed was Holley Gerth’s Hope Your Heart Needs. In this devotional...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 28, 2018 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoy reading memoirs of other chronic illness babes like myself. Beauty in the Breakdown by Julie Roberts is one of those memoirs that I can now include on my list of inspirational memoirs to read. In this book she is candid about her experiences in...