<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Sue Holbrook, Author]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sue Holbrook, Author]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:45:21 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.sueholbrook.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Missing Pieces]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past three years, my daughter Rebecca Loar has been working toward her Doctor of Music Arts degree at the University of South Carolina. She is a wonderful accomplished singer and voice teacher. We have all had great dreams and expectations for her and her family once she...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/missing-pieces-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf699aef18c7d57a058404</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 04:32:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_d3011508118b48158e2a25ae382e79dd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_720,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lament]]></title><description><![CDATA[O Lord, how long will you forget me? How long will you look the other way? —Psalm 13: 1 NLT Lament. It's a word we don't hear very often. When I have heard it in the past, I've put it into the category of whining, venting, complaining to God from the depths of my soul. And maybe...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/lament-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf699aef18c7d57a05840a</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:27:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_75c03b5cb4c049f0bbee62df047d326c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Golden Sky]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you walk through a storm Hold your chin up high And don't be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm Is a golden sky And the sweet, silver song of a lark. Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on With...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/a-golden-sky</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb0167656</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:43:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_9e23ebab03b94ee7b57fec363cbee354~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_705,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Most Memorable Ash Wednesday]]></title><description><![CDATA[…did you not know what the Holy One can do with dust? —Jan Richardson, “Blessing the Dust,” from Circle of Grace 
 
 Our pastors were away on a trip to the Holy Land. I was asked to assist the visiting pastor with the Ash Wednesday service. While I have held the Communion Cup...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/my-most-memorable-ash-wednesday</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb016764b</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:21:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_a185a9c6f6b84fe78d3af447a4586448~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Recommend: The Bathsheba Battle!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I attended a writer's conference. It was a good conference and I learned some stuff that has been beneficial. But the best thing I got from those three days of meetings was a friendship with a truly delightful young gal named Natalie Snapp. It's a nice...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/i-recommend-the-bathsheba-battle</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb0167653</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:54:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_dc9a767fb5ef4ffe84c8c95b4cb12ab3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_328,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the Cross]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand, The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land; A home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way, From the burning of the noontide heat, and the burden of the day. -Elizabeth C. Clephane We sang this hymn in church...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/beneath-the-cross</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb0167651</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:07:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_766ec89dee544aaa9c436fb00069907b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 2020: Fear...Courage...Trust]]></title><description><![CDATA[And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/for-2020-fear-courage-trust</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb0167657</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:33:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_43f9909398084addadd6a8ac21b57725~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_564,h_556,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Moment of Caroling]]></title><description><![CDATA[With Christmas just a few days away, I'm excited to share an excerpt from my latest book, Cradle and Cross, which is now available on Amazon.com and by order at your local book store.
 
  Does caroling fit into your holiday plans? Here's how it went in our family.
 
 Caroling We...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/a-moment-of-caroling-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf68a5ef18c7d57a0581b4</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:31:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_d730fbdae11b4d63b99cf3d419a489d5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interesting Intersection]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was a perfect description. Anyone driving on that street near my house would know immediately what my friend was saying. In touting a Saturday morning local event, she said "It's at the church near the interesting intersection." Got it. I drive there almost every day. It's...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/interesting-intersection-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf68a5ef18c7d57a0581b2</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:38:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_012e24a56fea40518da00680394f338e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breezes and Shadows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of the best things in life are imperceptible. - Sue Holbrook And often those imperceptible things don't need a lot of words. Shadows, breezes. Faith breezes. The shadows show the gentle breeze. It was faith that brought me here. I needed a touch from that gentle hand of...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/breezes-and-shadows</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb0167652</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2019 03:03:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_d22f78974946440a9296f0cdb9b2b46d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six Years and Counting!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Time passes. Thankfully. 
 
 As I wrote down the date this week, I realized it was the anniversary of a most significant day in my life: May 14. On May 14, 2013, I had a bilateral mastectomy. In 2013, I marked the date on this blog with the following story about the night...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/six-years-and-counting-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf68a5ef18c7d57a0581b3</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 01:58:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_8a9261a401b64f8b81e0c170f243b67b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Bunnies to Jesus]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is something about the doings of a three year old little boy that just puts life in perspective sometimes. Especially when the little boy is named Ellis and he's smart as a whip. Ellis is my grandnephew...the grandson of my brother. He is pictured here with his mother, his...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/from-bunnies-to-jesus-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf68a5ef18c7d57a0581b5</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 01:49:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_0afd8c5ba8f14e688716a6e9a3b04850~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_762,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Super Someday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -Thomas Jefferson / Benjamin Franklin / and Countless Others How many times are we told that if there's something we really really want to do we should do everything we can to make it happen. This quote is officially credited to...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/a-super-someday-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf68a5ef18c7d57a0581b1</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:28:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_55c16742b43e488cbe6c8b3fb1f0761f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put On the Grits!]]></title><description><![CDATA[John and Carrie Chesser Kennedy (This essay was originally published in my book Faith Breezes. I share it here in honor of the 100th anniversary of Vero Beach, Florida 1919 - 2019.) Few people in Indian River County would recognize the name Carrie Kennedy. They might know her...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/put-on-the-grits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb016764d</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:18:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_f1afdf1f2ede4f109b1c2037b8111654~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Time Remembered...the Bridge to the Beach]]></title><description><![CDATA["Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." - Aaron Siskind I love this picture. Let me tell you about it.
 
 This is the road that took us to...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/a-time-remembered-the-bridge-to-the-beach</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acedadd4d72865fb016764f</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:37:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_3a15d133aed24c89819bc2ab630258b9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Road Taken...Uh-Oh]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lost as a goose in a snowstorm... It was not exactly our finest hour. Friend Judy and I were returning from our pre-Christmas day at The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. We make it a point to go there sometime during the holiday season to enjoy the exquisite...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/the-road-taken-uh-oh</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf67c7ef18c7d57a057f7f</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_04eac2dc5fc940c992ce34cc97da87d7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Things From Old Things]]></title><description><![CDATA[See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. -Isaiah 43:19 (NIV) January 1 always puts me in a reflective mood. How about you? 2018 in many ways was no different from any other year for...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/new-things-from-old-things</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf67c7ef18c7d57a057f83</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 05:18:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_4f42f66a5b304d84b51f6ec824a1fbf8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HATE]]></title><description><![CDATA[I hate the word HATE. In fact, in recent months the climate of anger and dissension in our country has brought this word to the fore more than ever before in my lifetime. Its use has become almost cavalier among certain segments of our culture who seek to throw the worst stigma...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/hate</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf67c7ef18c7d57a057f84</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:29:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_508ad3f588484940a7c14a28a674bee1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends]]></title><description><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old... One is silver and the other gold. If I put a title on my activities of last week, it would be simply Friends. This little song from my Girl Scout days kept running through my head over the weekend as I looked back over the past few days. It...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/friends</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf67c7ef18c7d57a057f80</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:58:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_b3e0b4c2f4ee4c338c3c4173258a062c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Those Who Bore the Scars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Carl Holbrook, EM3/c Memorial Day is a time for remembering and honoring those who have given their lives in defense of our country. In that defense, there are so many who survived but carried with them the scars of battle. Many of those have been honored with the receipt of a...]]></description><link>https://www.sueholbrook.com/post/for-those-who-bore-the-scars</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf67c7ef18c7d57a057f7e</guid><category><![CDATA[Faith Breezes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2018 17:07:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/272994_a00a6664b4554aa8925a08b2c93ab885~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sue Holbrook</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>