“One of my favorite passages of scripture is the shortest one in the book. John 11: 35 simply says, “Jesus wept.” I love this verse because it shows a savior in touch with the human condition: pain. He wept. He allowed himself to feel grief and at that moment, tears streamed down his face like a river. He’s the friend that will sit with you and cry.”©Simone Holloway, 2020.
Tag: pain
Forget And Not Slow Down
Hello old friends, new followers, and fellow bloggers- Happy Friday! Do you have a favorite album? One that you can listen to from start to finish every single time? I have a list of ten favorite albums, all significant, speaking to a particular period of time in my life. I can remember where I was…
With Everything Inside…
Hello old friends, new followers, and fellow bloggers- “With everything inside…” those were the words of a song I wrote Christmas Day, 2017. It was a random expression of how I felt about the Father. My dad’s friend sat at the piano and I just began to sing, “With everything inside, I will offer you…
A Lover of Love
“I was created because God wanted someone to love. “©Simone Holloway, 2018
Oozing With Words
Hello old friend, new followers and fellow bloggers- I wish I could say that I’ve always had the right words to say, or that I was always confident to speak my heart, but that is not the case. I remember times, having so much to say but not knowing exactly how to translate my pain. …
The Process
So… I was thinking, how many of us give up on our dreams because of the process it takes to gain them?
Don’t Avoid The Pain
Band-aids aren’t God’s style, He’s desires eternal healing….
Ghosts
Hello old friends, new followers and fellow bloggers- I was listening to Andy Mineo’s song “Ghost” and I got to thinking….how many of us entertain ghosts? Ghostly people, ghostly heartbreaks, ghostly regrets, ghosts that haunt us when we are feeling low in our spirits about what we are experiencing with life. It’s as almost as…
Lesson Learned
what’s the point of being hurt if you gain nothing from it I learned that pain can be used to fuel healing to a lowly spirit what’s the point of making mistakes if you repeat them over and over again I learned that in over to move forward I had to live different, my friend a lesson…
Correcting Love
Hello old friends, new followers and fellow bloggers- Today was an amazing day. It was youth Sunday at my church and the theme was “never-ending love”, about the continual love of God. What I love about the love of God is that it exposes our wrong in hopes that we get right to move forward….
Authentic Love: God, Relationships, and Life 