Like I said earlier, words will not suffice for what happened on Sunday night in Kent. All I know, is that Jesus was there…and when Jesus shows up…the party always gets better.

So to be quite honest, I was not very excited about going to Kent for Valentines Day to do a concert for a bunch of single people (I am single too, so I am not bashing single people at all). I was just really tired mentally from all the hard core focusing I’ve been doing to start my new album, and would have loved and preferred to just stay home and hang out with family..maybe play board games or bake a cake…maybe spend a couple countless hours just talking about whatever. However, that was not the plan put in place.

Here’s a recap:

We got to the venue, met up with Jeremie (electric player) and his wife, Jill..sound-checked, met all the event staff (who are inCREDIBLE people!), ate dinner, hung out for a while, then the show began. Before anything started though…the funniest, most unfortunate event happened. I was backstage, waiting for my cue to hit the stage, when I realized I couldn’t get the door opened! I was freaking out! Somehow magically the door locked me back there, and the guys were about to start the first song! Without me! Great.. I could only imagine what would happen if I didn’t show up on cue. I was frantic. What was I to do? I was stuck! Would I have to knock!? Would I have to scream so someone could hear me? As soon as I started getting it through my head that this was going to be embarrasing…I realized that I had been pushing instead of pulling. Oops..lol. So with the ball of nerves going crazy in my stomach, I began to pray. I think I was two words in when I heard my cue to go on. “Here we go, Jesus… help me calm down!” was all I could think as I ran on–hoping that smiling and waving would hide how flustered I was…lol. =) Thankfully as soon as I got out there and in place, I felt like oxygen flooded my lungs and I was able to breathe. Before I knew it, an hour had passed and found myself crying in front of a bunch of people who couldn’t have blessed me more that night. I know I was the one delivering the music…but after I was done singing, they poured out Jesus’ love all over me by praying over me right there. Not only that, they promised to continue praying as God continues to move in my life. If there is one thing you should know about me, it is the fact that there is nothing more that I could ask for from anyone.. than prayer. To be standing there while they prayed, and then receive their promise to continue praying, absolutely broke me down. I was so humbled. After we said our formal goodbye from stage, I went back to my merch table, to yet again be blessed individually by the people and hearing how the message of “simply loving” that I spoke about that night, impacted their life. As well as hearing how “I Love You Anyway” is considered the single person’s anthem! =)

I still can’t believe what happened on Sunday…If I had followed my desire to stay home for Valentine’s day, I don’t know what would have happend. However, I am really thankful that I was in Kent…singing for a bunch of single people, talking about love… Love that changes my life. Jesus is so alive..and I’m very thankful that he doesn’t let my stubbornness keep him from showing me His GREAT LOVE.

IN GRACE,

holly

Here’s a couple pics from Sunday  night! Enjoy! (it was an acoustic set, about 100 single people gathered! Sry there aren’t any audience pictures..I am pretty sure we have some somewhere, but I am not exactly sure which camera has them..we had several cameras going that night. lol. These are just the pics I received.) =)