Nine Weeks Gone - Really?

Nine weeks.  That’s all it took.  And we, the Ladies of the Tuesday Night Bible Study on Covenant, have learned a lot!  Our lives are busy and it can be difficult to fit everything in.  We work.  We have families.   We have obligations.  There are places we must go and things we must do.  And then, there is Bible study.  It is important, so we carve out the time – not just to meet together at the end of a long day, but to do the homework.  We are a good team.  We learn from each other.  We share.  We are all so different; we are all the same.  We are sisters in Christ – flawed and imperfect, but studying and learning and making progress.  Ladies, I will miss you on Tuesday nights – but only for a while.  New studies are coming.  See you in January?

P.S. - Since you have time on your hands now - don't forget about Satan Exposed, the study with no homework and no book.  You can still catch the second part on Monday, November 15th at 6:00 p.m. in the Reception Room.  We all need as much help we can get when it comes to understanding spiritual warfare.  It is very real.

Home Again

This is the day!  I am going back home – from one side of the country to the other – from California back to Alabama.  It has only been six days, but it seems much longer.  That is not to say that I didn’t enjoy it, because I did.  I went to a wonderful conference – huge, overwhelming, full of information, brimming with new ideas.  It was great!  It was fun!

And since I was in Anaheim, I went to Disneyland.  I really did.  I felt like maybe I should borrow a child from someone, but I didn’t.  I just went.   All by myself.  My hotel was close enough that I could walk, so I did.  And I had a ball.  I rode the rides.  I went to the shows.  I learned how to draw Tigger and Goofy.  I got a grape soda pin like the one from UP.  I had so much fun!  But, I was still all by myself.  What I really wanted was my family – my husband, my son, people I love.  I wanted the people who know me best.  The ones who know when to say, “NO!  You absolutely do not need to ride that!” or “YES! I want to do that, too.”  I needed someone to be a part of the memories.  Someone to say, “Remember when . . .” and we all remember. Someone to be in the pictures.   Someone who knows what was funny and why.  Someone who doesn’t need any explanations. 

 

That is what God must be like.  The One who knows me best.  The One who knows what will scare me and what will thrill me.  The One who gets the jokes and shares the memories.  The One who remembers.  The One who forgives and forgets.  The One who knows why I would go to Disneyland all by myself and have still have fun.

Wish I Were There

I missed Bible study on Tuesday night – in more ways than one.  I simply could not be there, so I missed it.  (California is a long way from Alabama.)  And I wish I could have been there, so I missed it.  How strange that something I wasn’t all that excited about doing in the first place has ended up being so important.  Isn’t God something?  He can take someone like me – reluctant, half-hearted, uncertain – and teach them something very special, very important in spite of it all.  The only thing I had to do was go.  Make the commitment and go.  Decide that no matter how hesitant I might be, studying God’s word is more important.  He will do it for you, too.  So . . . next time you get the chance, next time you think you’d rather not, next time you think you just don’t have the time . . . go to Bible study anyway.  You will learn and be blessed in spite of yourself.