Who would like to share a journey with me? If you are a woman, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, daughter or any other feminine figure let's share this journey together. You see, I've been a Christian only since April of this year 2011. It was a long and arduous journey to get there but at age 42 I arrived. I'm here, now what? Well I'm hungry. Hungry for knowledge of His word and what He wants from and for me. My best supporters are those awesome women in my woman's Sunday school class. I've missed them for several months now because I just haven't been getting there. But a couple of weeks ago I made it back and they welcomed me with open arms and shared and loaned the books to me that they had been studying.
I must have had good timing because we are just getting ready to study a new book by Joyce Meyers called "Living Beyond Your Feelings". I am excited about this study because my emotions run a full course on any given day, week or even hour. We haven't got the books yet but we were given a short brief study asking how and why we let our emotions run us instead of us running our emotions. In nutshell, why do we let certain things bother us so much?
The other books the ladies shared with me are "If You Want to Walk on Water You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" by John Ortberg and "What God Really Thinks About Women" by Sharon Jaynes. So far both books are very good.
In the first couple of chapters of Jaynes' book I am told, surprisingly so, that God thinks highly of woman because he chose them to play extremely important roles in Jesus' life and how he got messages out to people. Starting with Mary the young woman who gave birth to him. I find it interesting that none of the woman Jesus ever chose ever questioned him. They gave themselves to Him wholly in faith. The men he chose, however, seemed to always question him. I think, that if Mary could give herself to God's will completely without question, then what in the world is wrong with me doing the same? Nothing, I have accepted him as my savior and have been baptized. My job, I think, now is to learn more and grow as a Christian. But I don't want to do it by myself, I want to share my journey with you.
In Ortberg's book in the chapter I am currently reading he is describing how Peter got out of the boat to walk with Jesus on the water purely out of faith. That's what this blog is all about I am going out on faith to share my journey with you. Mind you, I am a newbie Christian, you are talking about 42 years without any kind of Christian life, at all. The only thing I have going for me are great non-religious parents who taught me right from wrong, even if I did many wrong things in my life. Now with His grace, the right that was taught to me is now backed up with God's word.
You may not like many of the things I say or how I say them. I am going to be to the point and possibly rough sounding in some of my blogs. Does this make me not so Christian? Nope, got grace on my side and this is my journey in growing with Him. I am sure there are other women out there who are like me. Lower, middle class family of five, married for 21 years to the same man. I work three jobs, one of which is my own business, just to help keep us afloat. We are raising three kids, a 16 year old boy, a 12 year old learning disabled boy, and a 10 year old slightly learning disabled girl with a muscle development delay and hypotonia. I and my family are epitomy of what I like to think of as a real family. We don't live in 100K home, we live in a 30K home in the midwest United States of America. We have Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Tae Kwon Do, Youth Groups, Bible Buddies, Special Olympics, 4-H, archery, hunting, and just general life going on at our place.
Much of what I post will be questions I have of myself and how I can improve myself. Make myself more loving and less disappointed with myself. I may just blog to God in form of prayers. It is also my form of a journal, which is what the ladies in my Sunday school class have all challenged each other to do.
I don't know where this blog is going to take me, but I do pray it takes me closer to God, taking with me some wonderful sisters.
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