My acquaintance (and now friend) Tara sent an email blind carbon copying numerous women, seeking a coleader to her newly forming discipleship group of young moms. She mentioned Titus 2 in her email referring to this passage about how Christians should act (italics added):
Titus 2: 1-8
"But you should talk in a way that is consistent with sound teaching. Tell the older men to be sober, dignified, sensible, and healthy in respect to their faith, love, and patience. Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in their behavior, teaching what is good, rather than being gossips or addicted to heavy drinking. That way they can mentor young women to love their husbands and children, and to be sensible, morally pure, working at home, kind and submissive to their own husbands, so that God’s word won’t be ridiculed. Likewise, encourage the younger men to be sensible in every way. Offer yourself as a role model of good actions. Show integrity, seriousness, and a sound message that is above criticism when you teach, so that any opponent will be ashamed because they won’t find anything bad to say about us."
Tara was looking for an older woman to be available to the young moms in her group. If she couldn't find a coleader, she asked us to consider coming to the group occasionally. After I had a small chuckle about being an "older woman", I immediately responded to Tara that I did not want to colead the group but would be glad to come in occasionally when a topic of study was of interest to me.
Over the next two weeks I prayed and thought about what group to join, between a couple groups with women who could mentor me. Surprisingly, Tara's group was the group that repeatedly came to mind. I decided to join Tara as coleader and official "older woman"!
It's been very refreshing to get back into The Journey curriculum, and especially to become acquainted with this particular group of women. I've really been enjoying it.
Sometimes during group I think that I have something to say on a topic, but it's not really directly related to the discussion or it would take too much time to explain. So, I've decided to revive my blog and write down some ideas I have or things I have learned. Since most of my wise notions I learned from others, I decided to call these type posts, "What I learned from_______."
So far I am interested in writing on these topics:
What I learned from Monika and Angie
What I learned from Flylady
What I learned from Paul
What I learned from Dave Ramsey
What I learned from Jeanne
What I learned from Jill
What I learned from Nicole
What I learned from Medical Missions Ministries
What I learned from Amy and Johnna
What I learned from Safe Families
What I learned from Joy, indirectly
What I learned from that guy who wrote "The Automatic Millionaire"
What I learned from Grandma
After reading this exciting list of topics, I feel sure you will stay tuned to my blog eagerly awaiting my next post.
So far I am interested in writing on these topics:
What I learned from Monika and Angie
What I learned from Flylady
What I learned from Paul
What I learned from Dave Ramsey
What I learned from Jeanne
What I learned from Jill
What I learned from Nicole
What I learned from Medical Missions Ministries
What I learned from Amy and Johnna
What I learned from Safe Families
What I learned from Joy, indirectly
What I learned from that guy who wrote "The Automatic Millionaire"
What I learned from Grandma
After reading this exciting list of topics, I feel sure you will stay tuned to my blog eagerly awaiting my next post.
