by Jamie Holloway | Oct 30, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, And he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6) A lot can change in a twenty four hour period of time, heck, it can change in a weeks’ time. Last...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 29, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us. 2 Corinthians 1: 1 Good morning! It is 4:12 AM and I am awaiting my day to start. Today is a big day for me. I am having another surgery to get the stitches out of my throat, putting in a uncuffed trach...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 28, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Right now,in this present moment, with your current thoughts you’re creating your future. What’s it going to look like? Did you know that each one of us takes 17,280-23,040 breathes a day? That gives you so many opportunities to say thank you God for my...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 27, 2012 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“You will not change your behavior until you change your thoughts.” Joyce Meyer While in the hospital I have been reading Joyce Meyer’s book “Battlefield Of The Mind”. I resisted reading this book for a long, almost a year. When I am resistant to something that...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 26, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. ~ Philippians 1:6, NLT Once again what I expected to happen with my surgery is not what happened. I was supposed to...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 23, 2012 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck.” Emma Goldman My sentiments exactly Mrs. Goldman, I am not a diamond kind of gal, but flowers do bring up a sense of enjoyment and beauty. I am learning to enjoy life, not with the big luxury items such...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 22, 2012 | Books/Music, Exhilarating People
The last concert/show I went to was the summer of 2009 when I went to see Tori Amos and at that time I was not breathing so well and I was with a negative person in my life. Despite that, I loved the show. Strange how life changes in a blink of an eye and you gain new...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 20, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
“Do not be conformed to this world (this age), (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs), but be transformed (changed) by the (entire) renewal of your mind (by its new ideals and its new attitude). Romans 12:2 (Amplified version) Renewing my...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 19, 2012 | Auto-immune, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
Reasoning, thinking too much and too hard causes me great confusion and headaches. Does it you? I come from a family of thinkers, especially logical thinkers. We have to ask questions, have everything make sense to us so it can fit in the compartments of our minds....
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 14, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along’. You must do the thing...