Holy . . . 101

By Stacy Brown

This is an inspirational book about the discovery of God and his glory.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329018914

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Holy . . . 101

HOLY . . .

101

By Stacy Brown

Copyright © 2015, Stacy Brown

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

ISBN: 978-1-329-01891-4

Dedication

To my wonderful son and beautiful daughter; with all my love:

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ‘So we do not lose heart.  Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.  For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.  For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.’

Prelude

I use to think my life is pretty dang good on an overall basis.  At the bright ole age of just passing fifty years old, I noticed a really strange thing that happened to me and I am thinking; Holy…Crap! Why is this happening!? This does not sound good at all!

I ended up learning about God and boy oh boy…have I learned a lot!  What I learned was totally shocking! Not at all boring! I mean, who would of ever thought…!?  I didn’t learn this Holy stuff the typical way, the traditional way, like how most people learn from a class or church…The way I learned was way more interesting and even a tad scary at the beginning.

I have been on this journey for just over a couple years and it has been enjoyable, humbling, amazing and wow! I ask you to follow along with me on this heart thrilling – heart healing - heart throbbing journey that could also provide you with a fulfilling life altering experience from now on through eternity, if you so desire.

The following is written for primarily my family members and friends of which, most of you know, I write in the form of how I talk to others so enjoy and divulge into some pretty amazing stories.

My hope is to bring a smile to your face or perhaps even a giggle and maybe a tear or two with the possibility that you may be able to integrate some of my learnings into your life.

I hope you enjoy reading this book, as much as I enjoyed writing it – the only way I know how – with my free spirit…

God Bless

CHAPTER 1

When the Moment Came for a Change…

It all started on a cold winter evening and all I wanted to do is curl up on my couch with a blanket, next to the fireplace and read a good mystery-romance book, but hmmm… what should I read?  I got on the internet and searched some authors to see if they had anything new out.   As I am searching the internet, this one book about God catches my eye, off to the side page where there is those advertising section’s.   I look at it and think about it for, oh… two seconds and nahhh.  So I continue on my internet search for that perfect book, but this same book, about God keeps popping up off to the side more and more and it is the only book that keeps popping up versus others advertised on previous pages!  It has definitely caught my attention by giving me that ‘freak me out’ type feeling!  This book was like, following me!

A half hour later I’m like okay, this book has my full attention now!!  I clicked on it and checked it out again, even though this is NOT the type of book I was looking forward to divulging myself into.  After reading more about it, nope, not for me!  It is all about God and I can’t even read the Bible and well, I mean I can’t understand what is said in the Bible! So I go back into my searching mode and low and behold this damn book is seriously, like continuing to follow me again!  No kidding!  So I of course was getting a little more freaked out by the fact that a book like THAT was following me!  Could it be a coincidence? Am I supposed to Read this!??  I go back and read everything I can about the Author and the reviews. I had a nagging feeling to download that book on my kindle and many deep breaths later, I finally gave into it.  Probably because I thought it was some sort of sign or I’m not sure really why, I just ordered it.

I started out reading it before I went to bed most nights and would last oh about five minutes before I would fall asleep. I would think; wow…if anyone needs to get off of their sleeping pills, they could substitute them for this book!  No pun intended here!  But to me, it was boring and I didn’t understand it!  Many nights later, still being a tad frustrated why I am reading this book and not understanding anything, I just blurted out and I asked God; why am I reading this?  I mean, you obviously wanted me to read it!  No answer; so I kept on reading this book about God and Jesus more slowly and started to then talk to Jesus, saying things like; okay Jesus, what I just read makes no sense, why …. ?  And what is that suppose mean?  I was essentially carrying on a conversation with him like he was going to talk back to me, which I had to kind of laugh at.

A few months later, I found myself reading for longer than 5 minutes on this book, not really knowing why, I just did.  I have figured out that this is a true book, I mean like, it is real life and I believe it happened.  What had happened was that this author of this book, got chosen to be like a prophet (I think that is what you call it?) for Jesus but it isn’t like hearing about Moses back in the day – (tells you how up to date I am on all this stuff).  It is like today’s version of Jesus actually speaking to this lady and he asks her to write down a bunch of messages from him and then he asks her to relay these messages on to other people all around the world.  These messages came to her back in the 1980’s and I believe are still coming to her.  Thinking about this though; wow…Jesus asking her to be a prophet – really, who in their right mind would say no to HIM?  So she does what Jesus asks and so far what I got out of it is; Jesus is wanting these people to essentially change their ways.  When I figured this out, my initial thought was, wow… that poor lady!  Silently thinking, I hope that doesn’t happen to me.  You know, be a prophet!

I am in new phase of my life as my two most amazing, loving wonderful kids are off at college and doing great.  I get my kid fix by being able to go visit them, buy them groceries, take them out to eat… once every few weeks.  I have a good job and am able to pay my bills. I have a very loving, supportive, and sweet boyfriend, named George whom is like my best friend.  I am now able to travel often to visit my parents, sisters and other relatives that live in sunny Arizona – Living in the Midwest and going to Arizona in the winter time is heavenly!  Life is just really great and I am essentially a happy camper!  Oh…Sure, I would love to have more dollars in my bank account, a nicer house, a cabin on the lake and an ocean front property but I am working  on that.

One evening reading this book about God; I started to feel this pressure in the middle of my forehead.  It didn’t hurt; it was just a different feeling.  Kind of like a combination of a light tingle, light pressure and a light magnetic type feeling.  Hmmm… that is kind of weird and it is even more weird that I noticed it.  I am the most least observant person on planet earth – oblivious to the world around me.  Anyways, this feeling lasted for only a minute or two, then it went away - so whew… I must be okay and back to reading I went.  I decided to check out how much of this book I have left as it seems I should be close to finishing so I tapped onto my kindle and it stated that I am at 10% completed.  My kindle doesn’t show page numbers and if it does, I’m not savvy enough to figure out how to change it.  But I was in shock!  Only Ten percent read!!  How long is this book?  Wow, at this rate, I will be 80 years old before I finish it!  It isn’t the type of book that keeps you intrigued like a 50 Shades of Grey book, with suspense…, if you know what I mean?

I have noticed this pressure on my forehead numerous times and mainly when I am reading this book!  George, my ever so sweet boyfriend who I am visiting, is watching ESPN one night and while I am reading this book, this magnetic pressure feeling comes back on my forehead.  So I take the chance of asking him; hey hun, do you ever get a pressure type feeling on your forehead?  He takes his eyes off the game and says; what?  I repeat myself acting like it is just a question with a ‘no big deal’ mentality attached to it.  He said no, why?  I nonchalantly say, oh… no reason and he is back watching the game.  Hmm… I never thought of ESPN being a good thing before but this time it saved me with any further questions from George.  Anyways, I silently ask God, what is going on with this feeling on my forehead??  Is there something wrong with me? Is that why you are having me read this? I hope it isn’t any signs that I have a brain tumor…!!  The more I read this book, the more this feeling comes on my forehead so getting a tad scared here, as I just spoke out load, with a matter of a fact tone. I continue to say; Jesus, I know it doesn’t give me any pain NOW as it actually feels kind of cool but is it going to give me pain later??  Okay,