1/21/11. Beth Moore and Me. My first entry in my quest to get under the skin of this delightful woman and try to learn and feel what she knows about God.
I wrote earlier that I was doing a Beth Moore Bible study with a group of gals I don't know (actually I do know two of them, but not the majority.) Anyway, I started thinking about Beth because I saw her in person in Raleigh, NC back in 2006 when she was here for a God fest at the RBC Center.
She is so dynamic and seems to be a real close buddy of God's which made me a bit envious. I love God and know he feels the same way about me, but there are times I don't feel it. Know it but don't feel it. I came late into God's presence, was probably in my mid 40s when I started developing a personal relationship with him. There's so much I don't get or understand. I crave to know more and since I decided to start off the New Year with a Beth Bible study, I thought The Godmother's Club would be a good venue to post my journey about learning more about the workings of Beth's relationship with God.
Our study subject of Revelations has been changed to a study on the Book of Daniel. At first I was miffed because I had made peace with studying a subject I really don't care about, but then I realized this might just be part of the process of learning to walk with God...trusting him with change. That's a biggie for me. I pay lip service to trusting him, but I'm sure I try to get my two cents into the act, too, trying to make outcomes favorable to me.
The other trust thing that happened to me this week is that I accepted a volunteer job at my church, New Hope, on Monday morning, and guess which day Bible study is starting. Yup. Did I check my calendar to see if I was free and could help out? No. When Lucie, the pastor's assistant asked if I was free to help her, I just spouted out a yes. I think that was meant to happen, too. So I'm trusting God I did the right thing. And! I found the first session of Daniel on the web for $4.99, so I'll treat myself to buying it and not get behind my group.
I am remembering to pray daily for a woman in my study, whose name I was given, asking God to give her the strength to live the "word" she chose to work on these next 11 weeks. Can't say what the word is or who the woman is because we're doing this in confidentiality and I won't out her.
I'll post during the week about my journey in getting to know Beth better and I'll be posting articles on what I learn about Daniel and how it affects life today on Suite101.com. I'll include a link to each article for here, just in case you'd like to hear what I learned and wrote about.
The first thing I can say about Beth is that she's beautiful and I just love her hair!
