Just call me “Midnight Writer.” It will be\u00a0after midnight by the time I add this post to our blog. I just had to write again this week because my earlier post might have left you downhearted, and I just couldn’t leave you that way. I’ve got to now add, as Paul Harvey would say…”the rest of the story.”<\/p>\n
As I explained in my last post\u00a0how my balloon got popped and my feelings got hurt\u00a0when the lady\u00a0was talking about\u00a0Holt’s fingerprint. The comments the lady made didn’t sit too well with my design department either. Do you really have a design department, you ask? No, but I do have a sweet friend named Jodi Shaheen\u00a0who is my logo designer. (I have just created this title for her.)\u00a0Jodi is currently\u00a0serving the Lord in the\u00a0Dominican Republic with her\u00a0husband, Mike, and their two children, Grace and Wyman. Mike is a missionary through FCA, and Jodi and Mike\u00a0met Holt through an FCA mission trip when he went to the Dominican in the summer of 2010 with a group from Pierce County. Mike was the former head baseball coach at Wesleyan in Atlanta.\u00a0He gave up that job to serve the Lord full time in the Dominican, and Holt thought that decision was “pretty cool.”\u00a0 Mike and Jodi are now teaching people, especially young men, that\u00a0real hope in the future\u00a0cannot be found in a sport\u00a0but\u00a0can only be found in\u00a0Jesus Christ. I admire their dedication and willingness to sacrifice so much to follow God’s leading. That is pretty cool to me too.<\/p>\n
Jodi is very creative,\u00a0and she majored in design in college. You see, God started preparing her to work with The Holt Rowland Foundation\u00a0long before she ever knew of Holt Rowland. God has used her creative skills to design and her great eye to capture amazing photographs. She is also the one responsible for the new video link we added to the website. Jodi put together that video to share Holt’s testimony with people in the Dominican and here. I can certainly say that\u00a0God has used her\u00a0skills\u00a0and talents to bless our family and others in\u00a0many ways.<\/p>\n
Jodi emailed me after my last blog was posted and she told me that she had developed a new logo with an even more defined Holt Rowland fingerprint, oh yes she did! She sent it to me Wed. morning and it looked great. What Jodi didn’t know at that time was that on Wed. I needed to email a copy of Holt’s print\u00a0for\u00a0a t-shirt\u00a0I was trying to design. She had no idea that I needed to send the design that day so some of the shirts could be printed before the golf tournament. Jodi didn’t know, but God did. The lady who hurt my feelings didn’t know, but God did. I didn’t know, but God did.\u00a0God used Jodi, and\u00a0we got a new logo\u00a0with a\u00a0defined print in time to forward it to the t-shirt people and there you have it…..Another good thing that came from a bad situation! God working it for good. I just love it when that happens.<\/p>\n
We now we have an even more defined fingerprint logo and a cool\u00a0t-shirt….because Jodi used her talents and skills. Because she\u00a0obeyed when God led.\u00a0Because I was sad. Because\u00a0my balloon\u00a0was popped. Because I have a blog to write about it. Because my sister has prior skills to design a website. Because we have a foundation. Because Dr. Stanley Jones had an idea to honor a special life.\u00a0Because God made Holt Rowland so special. Because God has a bigger plan!\u00a0 Now that really is “pretty cool.<\/p>\n
Well, this “Past Midnight Writer” is pooped. You have a good day today and look for ways that God might be using you. Don’t forget, you’re part of that bigger plan too. Yep, I know, that is\u00a0pretty cool. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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