Bible Study

If you want to get into a Bible study, do it. It is one of the best if not the best thing ( if that's the way to say it) you can do for yourself. If you are looking to start a Bible study and are not sure what you want to study, try Beth Moore. I highly recommend her, she's that good. The group I'm in meets on Monday nights. This is an incredible group of ladies (we are mixed generations), a group I have come to know well and look forward to being with every week. I will say with this type of Bible study, there is homework, but every bit of it is worth it. The study my group is doing now is Breaking Free. This is by far the best Bible study I have been involved with, though I have participated in others that were good, this one tops them all. Maybe it's because I'm ready to hear/ study what Beth is requiring, maybe because this particular study is very thought provoking, maybe a lot of other things. I don't know. But I'm not looking forward to its ending. I wish it would go on and on. I'm sure you've heard the saying All good things must come to an end; I don't know that I agree with that, but all it is is a saying. My priest preached a sermon several weeks ago entitled Hold On To Your Forks, There's Something Better Coming. Though this study will be ending soon, there will be something better coming as Father Chuck preached-- other good studies in the future. See above for the book.

For the last several weeks, I have set aside time at night often staying up late to either finish a day's lesson or to continue (not so I could be ahead or say that I had completed my homework), but because I was that eager to continue on. My point is the song I Will be Free by Cyndi Morgan has run through my head as I have studied . I wish I had that CD because it would tie in well. Being free of hurts, anger, betrayals, any other stresses or burdens is the theme of the study; although Beth has tied in the importance trusting God to allow you to be free. Hopefully, Lisa or Deena if either of you are reading this, I hope I'm wording this right. Like other things, ( some of you know what I'm talking about) this is something that everyone experinces in their own way, at least I think. We were talking tonight and all agreed that each week's lesson has really spoken to each of us and has made us really think. I wish I could find that CD (I'm sure it's still in the music stores) because I remember how much that song spoke to me the summer of '94. I had just graduated from college and was working out of town to tie me over until I started teaching that fall. Little did I know that the events of that one summer would change my family's life. That sang sustained me the whole summer. Once I locate the CD, I will include the words.