My Meeting with Kylie Bisutti, Former Victoria Secret Model

February 22, 2012 By Courtney 12 Comments

Tuesday Morning Kylie Bisutti, former Victoria Secret Model, was in New York City on Fox and Friends doing this.

And Tuesday evening she was in Ohio at a Starbucks, doing this!!!

Kylie graciously gave of her time, to share her story with me and my 2 friends – Diana and Clare (Peak 313).

We chatted for nearly 2 hours and I wish I could share every last detail with you – but it was not an interview (although my rapid fire questions may have felt like it was to her lol!!! This girl is fascinating!). It was truly just a casual meeting of sisters in Christ exchanging God stories!

Kylie has a new website at KylieBisutti.com where she has shared both her testimony and heart. She writes there:

“I Quit Being A Victoria’s Secret Model To Become a Proverbs 31 Wife

I started my modeling career at the very young age of 14. It was always my dream to become a super model and to be a Victoria’s Secret model was my ultimate goal in life. I felt like I was born to walk the runway and at the age of 19 I achieved that goal. I walked in my first Victoria’s Secret runway show…

I selfishly desired the attention that I was getting and I gave in to worldly ways… UNTIL I had a very gracious and convicting AWAKENING! The Lord knocked me off my feet and showed me where to find true happiness and self worth. How to be truly beautiful (which has NOTHING to do with external beauty) and most importantly how to truly live a life for Him and His glory and not my own. As I studied the word more, I desired to be more Christ like in the way that I was living. I wanted to be a better example to young women. I wanted to be the wife that God made me to be and the one my husband deserved. (we were recently married before the whole Victoria’s Secret thing happened) I wanted to be honoring to the Lord in all things. So, I stopped modeling lingerie, and skimpy bathing suits. I told myself I would never be on a men’s magazine again, and I decided to be more modest in the way that I dressed.” ~Source Link

OH ya – I like this girl! She has my heart!

And I have to wonder…is there something that God has been convicting you of? Maybe there is something you are doing that you love BUT you know God is not pleased with. Maybe it feels like the sacrifice would be too high to quit. Kylie had reached the epitome of modeling but when God convicted her, she obeyed her convictions, took a leap of faith and sacrificed it all. She did not know what God would have around the next corner for her but she trusted and went forward. And she testifies to the peace she has on the other side.

Her story inspires me to remember that all the world offers is empty and that we serve a worthy Savior! He is worthy of sacrificing all!

To follow Kylie visit her blog at KylieBisutti.com or follower her on Twitter @VSKylie.

Walk with the King,

Clare just put up a more detailed post about our meeting with Kylie here: http://peak313.com/featured/my-meeting-with-ex-victoria-secret-model-kylie-bisutti/

Filed Under: Contentment, Proverbs 31

It’s Women Living Well Wednesday Link-Up Time!

February 21, 2012 By Courtney 19 Comments

It’s link-up time! It’s Women Living Well’s Wednesday Link-Up Party!!! Join the fun, do a little blog hopping and don’t forget if you join below -please add the Women Living Well Wednesdays button to your post so your readers can find us here! (Posts can include the topics of marriage, parenting, homemaking, finances, recipes, organization and more!)

To find the code go to the sidebar – or right click and “save as” the button and then upload it into your post!

Walk with the King!

Filed Under: Women Living Well Wednesdays

My Reflections on the Academy Awards

February 20, 2012 By Courtney 27 Comments

The Academy Awards are this weekend.

It’s the famous ones who walk the red carpet.

It’s the honored ones who walk the red carpet.

It’s the beautiful ones who walk the red carpet.

It’s the talented ones who walk the red carpet.

It’s the wealthy ones who walk the red carpet.

It’s the gifted ones who walk the red carpet.

And I…I am about to walk the red carpet!

Every morning, I walk the red carpet right up to my sink where I rinse the morning dishes.

I am honored to have a husband and children to take care of.

I am beautiful in the eyes of the Lord, living out his will for my life as a wife and mother.

I am wealthy on the red carpet, for many in the world do not have a sink with running water in their kitchen.

I am gifted on the red carpet – gifted with the riches of God’s grace that come through my faith in Christ Jesus his son.

There is no greater honor than the red carpet walk I do every morning in my kitchen.

Join me, as you step up to your kitchen sink – in welcoming a joy that the world cannot understand.

My red carpet is…

A GIFT.

Thank you sweet Jesus for delighting me with this gift!

Walk with the King!

Filed Under: Homemaking, Joy

Top 10 Quotes on Motherhood

February 20, 2012 By Courtney 22 Comments

This weekend I flew to Dallas, Texas to attend and speak at Sally Clarkson’s Mom Heart Conference. God filled my cup there!!! Not only did I glean wisdom from every single session but I felt blessed to get one on one time with Sally to ask her questions about my own life.

I also got to spend loads of time with my high school best friend and partner over on GoodMorningGirls.org – Angela. Angela was a speaker also.

Another fun part of the weekend was meeting for the first time our new contributor over at GoodMorningGirls.org – Whitney!

And also getting to meet Mandy from Biblical Homemaking - whose blog I happen to be a fan of!

Theses are my top 10 favorite quotes from the Mom Heart Conference:

10. There are no formulas given in the Bible for Motherhood – each mom’s puzzle is different. We must walk by faith.

9. Don’t isolate, protect and or solve all of your children’s problems. Rather than keeping your children from difficulty, walk them through difficulty.

8. Do not point out every single one of your children’s flaws. If God followed me around all day long correcting me, I wouldn’t want to be a Christian.

7. In the absence of Biblical conviction, Moms will go the way of the culture.

6. In the absence of a loving h0me, children will go the way of the culture.

5. God made us for more than rules – Have fun with your children!!! Be interesting!

4. Non-Christians are not the enemy. “It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

3. The love in your home will be like water in a garden that causes your children to grow.

2. “In your face” parenting – passes on guilt. Sometimes your children need understanding not another lecture. Be an “in your heart” mom.

1. Follow Jesus’ example in motherhood. He is our source of grace and truth. Be a source of grace and truth to your children. Listen with patience, ask thoughtful questions to draw your children out, encourage and edify them, serve them. Know and do what is meaningful to them.

The thing I enjoy most about Sally is her high ideals. She calls moms to a higher standard. I’ve been to a lot of conferences and retreats and often I am so sad to see them end because I want to continue the “party” lol! Sally’s conference made me want to rush home and go love on my kids! I wrote this post on the plane because I knew when I got home the LAST thing I wanted to do was be on my computer!

Sally has inspired and renewed my desire to be the best mom I can be, to embrace this season of life, to read thousands of pages to my kids and spend time with them rubbing their backs, talking about interesting topics, listening to their hearts cries, speaking life and truth into them. She also reminded me that I need to put blinders on, not worry about what others think and simply believe in my children.

Sally’s stories remind me that the things I go through with my children most moms face…we all feel ragged, overwhelmed, and like bad moms some days. But together we can pick ourselves up and begin new days with high ideals for God’s glory.

Walk with the King!