My Thoughts

Bennie Hall was born in April 1865 in Cass County, Texas.  The Hall family had settled into the Northeast Texas area approximately 15 years earlier as verified by 1850 Census records for Bennie's father, Benjamin Franklin Hall.  Prior to the move, the Hall family had resided in Georgia.   Bennie married Daniel Hardy Holt in 1883 in Cass County, Texas.  The couple had 10 children:  6 girls and 4 boys.  Bennie and Daniel slowly moved eastward before finally settling in Hazen, Arkansas.  The first 4 children were born in Cass County, Texas while the remaining 6 were born in Arkansas.  This movement to Arkansas is consistent with the Holt family migration patterns.  Most of Bennie's siblings remained in Cass County and are buried there.  Bennie died in 1926 in Hazen, Arkansas.  Within three months, her husband died.  In the next year, her son Seth and daughter Erma also died.  The reasons for families to move into Texa...

I truly believe that where there's a will, there's a way , but as I stand on this precipice of my life looking across the vast chasm in front of me, I am beginning to wonder if perhaps my dream just is not the right one or is at the right time. Either finding a way down or making a big loop around to find a suitable crossing, both options torment me. So much precious time to be wasted, and I can see the prize just barely on the other side.When I relinquished my dream of becoming an attorney, I formulated a new dream, and very few people know what it is. Is that my chasm, that I have scarce shared? For a few years, I was lost without my old dream, blaming myself, hating myself. Through God's amazing grace, I eventually understood that not all dreams are meant to come true.............eventually I understood that His power and desires for me where so much better than what I thought I wanted for myself. So, trying to make the most of the situation ((place and time)).....