The first day I met Holly Reeder was a scary one. For many reasons, one that I was a 6th grader in a high school Sunday school class and two because Holly always terrified the poop out of me. Turns out that neither were anything to be afraid of because the class was actually incredibly entertaining and still is and Holly ended up being super nice. Therefore, yes I do know Holly fairly well, I see her every Sunday and talk to her about everything that happened throughout the rest of the week. Making this the reason I picked her, I only know Holly’s Sunday attitude. I never noticed this until a couple weeks ago when we were discussing a high school party and she was telling me about a party she went to the night before. “Whoa” I thought as I
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I always tell her I’m doing well and afterwards we talk about how our weeks were and what kind of stuff we did and what stuff we have planned for the next week. Most adults when they ask you how your week was they ask and afterwards give a simple answer such as “sweet” however Holly’s answer is always different, it a wisdom filled answer. If I tell her something stupid I did, she would give me advice on next time, yet she would never judge me for what I did the first time. She’s similar to a teenager filled with this sort of teenage wisdom. One of my favorite things about her is that I can talk about boys without feeling as if she’s judging me or going to snitch to my parents about what I say. There was one time that I was going through a break up and she starting crying with me. I had no idea why, I thought she was only being nice. She later told me that she and her husband were getting a divorce and she knew what I was going through. I had never felt as foolish about anything, I was crying about a silly high school boyfriend while she was getting a divorce, yet I had never felt more close to anyone in the world, it was truly as if we were going through the split …show more content…
After all of the talking about days and such we read the bible. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to read the bible, some parts are incredibly confusing though. Therefore, when I’m too confused she will close the book and explain it to me in a way that I understand. These are not how all of the days go though. Sometimes we just sit and talk about how God has impacted our lives. There was one day in particular that stands out to me. It was when I told her that I was skeptical if God was even real. I couldn’t see him or even tell if he was real, people had lied to me about Santa and the Tooth Fairy, therefore to me it didn’t make sense. That’s when she told me that some of the best things in life are not seen, they are felt. She told me that you cannot see love and technically there’s no way to prove you are in love, however you know that love is real. She brought into a part of my brain where I could actually understand what he was doing for me. I looked at the world with larger eyes, when you look at trees, you may just see trees. However, I see a creation that God made and kept around making us be able to breathe and see it too. A creation that he could’ve given up on and he didn’t. Holly helped me realize that being God’s child is not hearing him or understanding everything about him, yet feeling his love
I always tell her I’m doing well and afterwards we talk about how our weeks were and what kind of stuff we did and what stuff we have planned for the next week. Most adults when they ask you how your week was they ask and afterwards give a simple answer such as “sweet” however Holly’s answer is always different, it a wisdom filled answer. If I tell her something stupid I did, she would give me advice on next time, yet she would never judge me for what I did the first time. She’s similar to a teenager filled with this sort of teenage wisdom. One of my favorite things about her is that I can talk about boys without feeling as if she’s judging me or going to snitch to my parents about what I say. There was one time that I was going through a break up and she starting crying with me. I had no idea why, I thought she was only being nice. She later told me that she and her husband were getting a divorce and she knew what I was going through. I had never felt as foolish about anything, I was crying about a silly high school boyfriend while she was getting a divorce, yet I had never felt more close to anyone in the world, it was truly as if we were going through the split …show more content…
After all of the talking about days and such we read the bible. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to read the bible, some parts are incredibly confusing though. Therefore, when I’m too confused she will close the book and explain it to me in a way that I understand. These are not how all of the days go though. Sometimes we just sit and talk about how God has impacted our lives. There was one day in particular that stands out to me. It was when I told her that I was skeptical if God was even real. I couldn’t see him or even tell if he was real, people had lied to me about Santa and the Tooth Fairy, therefore to me it didn’t make sense. That’s when she told me that some of the best things in life are not seen, they are felt. She told me that you cannot see love and technically there’s no way to prove you are in love, however you know that love is real. She brought into a part of my brain where I could actually understand what he was doing for me. I looked at the world with larger eyes, when you look at trees, you may just see trees. However, I see a creation that God made and kept around making us be able to breathe and see it too. A creation that he could’ve given up on and he didn’t. Holly helped me realize that being God’s child is not hearing him or understanding everything about him, yet feeling his love