Guest, Kay Hawkins

Joy interviews her grandma, Mrs. Kay Hawkins

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Hello everyone and welcome to the Faithful Her podcast. It's Joy, and today we are going to be interviewing my grandma. So go ahead and say hi and introduce yourself.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Hi, my name is Kay Hawkins. I am Joy's grandma.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Yeah, so um we're just gonna be asking you some questions and then um we'll do highs and lows with you too. Does that sound good?

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Sounds wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

Okay, so we can start with highs and lows. So you can just say what your high of the week was and what your low of your week was.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Well, um, my high of my week this week was that I was surprised by my family. Um I'm turning 60, which sounds so old to me, but at any rate, um I thought I was just bringing my dad out for a visit, and uh there they all were. Uh it was wonderful. I cried. It was very sweet to see all my kids and grandkids from all over the place um get together and we had a wonderful time. My lows, I don't know that I have a low from this week. It's been an awesome week. Do I have to have a low?

SPEAKER_01 1:06

If you can think of one, that's great, but you don't have to have one. Sometimes I don't have one either.

unknown 1:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

So you don't have one? I don't have one. So my high was that I got an orange kissolani for Sunday. It was really good. And my low was that on Sunday, um, me and my friend from our teen class at church, and then her brother, who's also in the teen class, all sang a church or a song in church Sunday morning. Um and we sang the song to count for Jesus. So you should go listen to it. It's a great song. Um so we got it to sing, we were doing great, and then all three of us were doing perfectly fine. And then we got to the second chorus, and I had to drop an octave for the first two lines of the chorus because they were too high. And then for the rest of it, I went normal, um high. But then on the second chorus, the first one was great, but on the second one, when I went from low to high, I sang a note that was terribly off-key, and then I just started dying laughing in front of the entire church. Then the girl started smiling and laughing, then we all looked at each other, and I went back and watched it, and I kind of ruined the whole song, but it was okay. So we can start asking you questions now. So I don't know how many I have, but it's not that much. So, number one, what was your favorite thing to do as a kid?

SPEAKER_00 2:18

My favorite thing to do as a kid was to ride horses. Um, I had a pony, different ponies through the years, um, and we kept them at our house, used them for our Christian day camp, and I got to ride them all the time, and it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Great. And then what candy or snack did you love growing up?

SPEAKER_00 2:37

I loved Oreos in um I would uh break them up on top of vanilla ice cream when my mom they didn't last very long. The ice cream was usually gone like the next day, so whenever she came back from the grocery store, that was my favorite treat.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

That sounds really good. And then what's something kids today have that you wish you had?

SPEAKER_00 2:58

That's interesting because I was gonna say, um, I guess uh access to learning um phones. I don't think kids could just should just have phones, but I do think that like even with computers and um you guys are are very blessed in being able to access to scripture, access to studying, stuff like that. Um I didn't have that. I love to read, um, so that's great. But I can read a lot more even using I have a lot more access to a lot more books in more places.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Um what's something from your childhood that you miss?

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Uh it's kind of a funny thing. Um my dad was building church buildings um when I was a kid, and I miss being able like we would just take construction material and make forts and stuff like that. And I know I'm not a kid anymore, but I had fun doing it.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Um next one, what's your favorite Bible story?

SPEAKER_00 3:53

My favorite Bible story is probably the story of the lepers when they were cleansed and the one came back to give thanks. Kind of funny story, but when when I was a little girl, my dad had bought me an ice cream and I forgot to say thank you. And my dad actually took my ice cream and ate it in front of me. But um I'm not sure that he thinks that was great, but at any rate, it really taught me to be thankful, and that story is always just a reminder to me to be thankful.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Oh, yeah. And then what's your favorite hymn or Christian song?

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Oh, I have so many favorites. That's a hard one. Um probably it is well um with my soul or great as thy faithfulness. Uh, I really like I like so many songs though.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

It's a hard one. Um, if you could relive one day from your life, what would it be?

SPEAKER_00 4:45

That's an interesting question. Probably uh just because it sticks out in my memory, um, when I was about nine or ten years old, I got red cowboy boots for Christmas, and it was just such a special day to me. Um I would probably want to go back and enjoy that joy again.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Um When did you personally trust Christ?

SPEAKER_00 5:11

Uh I was actually a little girl. I was four years old, and um I was in my kitchen and I knew that I wanted to go to heaven. And uh my I asked my mom if she would pray with me, and I actually knelt down on my kitchen table. I still remember that. I think I've always been short. And so I don't know if that just made me feel tall or what, but I did. I knelt there and I trusted Christ. And I remember being so excited the next day, um, I assume it in my young kid brain, I think it was the next day, um, to go to church and tell all my friends. And then I was baptized um a few weeks later, but I had to stand on a box in the baptistry because, like I said, I was short. So, but that was cool.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Who had the biggest influence on your faith?

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Uh probably definitely my parents. I was raised in a Christian home. My dad was a pastor from the time I was four until just about ten years ago, um, even as an adult. And both of them just living with them, watching their faith and their testimony, uh, had the biggest influence.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Um, what's one lesson God has taught you over the years?

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Well, I lesson probably one of the main lessons uh when my husband, who is also a pastor, uh we had started, I'm gonna cry, but we had started a church in Pennsylvania, restarted a church, and um didn't have a lot of money. And one time I really had no faith and I was really upset at God, and the very next that afternoon, someone who my husband had given a ride to about a year ago sent us like $75 or $100 in the mail. And it was so out of the blue, and it was so much God that I think I really had to learn to trust him, and that's been something I've continued to learn through the years.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Have you ever gone through a season where your faith was tested? Well, I guess you kind of just answered that.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Kind of a lot of life your faith is tested. I will say that um different seasons. But yeah, that time was probably one of the most because there was times when we had no money, but God provided every single time.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

What Bible verse has encouraged you the most in life?

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Hmm, that's hard. Um so much of it. Lately, Psalm 71 has been my go-to passage. Um, it's not specifically just a verse, but it talks about um different stages of your life and serving God throughout those stages. So I don't know that that's been my throughout all of it. Um but uh I also his nurse m his mercies are new every morning would be another passage.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

How has uh prayer changed your life?

SPEAKER_00 8:02

It has changed my life and is changing my life by learning that I can ask him for specific things. Uh I think sometimes I pray too generally and that he can answer specific prayers, um, like that time with the money. And I was like, why am why is he even gonna, how is he even gonna send me money? And there it was, and um it's helped me to try to trust him more and to pray more specifically.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

Um what advice would you give young Christian girls?

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Oh, I would say stay in your Bible. Uh Proverbs a day, uh whatever day of the month it is, reading that book of Proverbs, that chapter, excuse me, in the book of Proverbs, I believe would would really change your life. Um staying in church. Obeying your parents. Um that's sometimes hard to do as a young teen. I struggle with that. Older teen, I struggle with that.

unknown 9:05

It stopped.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Okay. Thank you so much for joining us. Um just want to say that this has been Joy Stancil, and I'll see you next week on the Faithful Hair podcast. And thank you again so much for being here, and I'll see you guys next week. Bye.