So I press on.
Tuesday morning was the beginning of another Bible study at SBC. Now I started to say "I can't even tell you how much I love Tuesday morning Bible studies," but then realized OH YES I CAN! So I shall now share WHY I love me some Tuesday morning Bible study.
1. I love-love the variety of the ladies attending. I don't know what makes the morning-study so unique, but more so than in any other setting I find there to be a simply delightful mix of women. It's different from study to study, but on Tuesday I met beautiful young women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s...and I'm pretty near certain there is maybe one or three even older than that but I REFUSE to say in order to protect my they like me status...
(Wouldn't it be AWFUL to get it wrong?!! No way I'm risking that kind of terrible awful mistake.)
Anyhoo, there are mamas with babies and mamas who are grandmas, and everywhere in between. There are women who are single (Hi, my name is Renee and I do not have a husband ;) and who are married. There are women attending who I have loved nearly as long as I haven't... and some adorable ladies I met Tuesday.
Like I said VARIETY!
2. There is something about waking up first thing in the middle of the week with the intention of putting on pants that button, running a brush through my hair, and hugging on some friends that makes me happy to see what happens next.
3. There are snacks every. single. week. All manner of yumminess that does not include the hard-boiled egg or steel-cut oats that I typically eat. And I'm just going say it. I am a lover of the random, pot-lucky snack item. Snacks are good and good for ya.
4. We share prayer requests, and I write them down, and then I pull that list during the week and pray for these women with their varied lives. I love the sharing. I love the praying. I love the getting behind the smiles part of the sharing. I can't even tell you how my heart broke when the lady sitting three chairs down from me quietly told us she would likely lose her husband within weeks.
We never know what kind of pain the person sitting beside us might be experiencing...
5. Coming together week, after week, after week knits our hearts together. There is time in a three-month-ish period to watch God working in our lives. Good stuff.
6. I love the clean-slate feeling of that first morning as I open up my brand-new workbook and prepare to dive in! I just know God is going to teach me something new. He does that, ya know.
7. Did I mention the SNACKS??
I humbly suggest you go find yourself a group of girls to open the Word of God with STAT. You will not be sorry... and you will likely make yourself some new friends that you might never have met otherwise.
Make it a happy Thursday!
Renee
