Good evening! Tomorrow night we start our study in the park. If you have specific prayer requests, please forward them to me at kristaremias@yahoo.com. They will be shared with the group.
Some of you will not be able to join us each week. Some will not be able to join us at all. Laura suggested that we try to follow by blog. After much work on Laura's part and agonizing on mine to post, we have a start.
This week will be an introductory week. We will be asked some ice breaker questions. Please feel free to share them with us! Also, we will be watching a video by Chip Engram, Living on the Edge. You can listen to it on line. Go to living on the edge community. Go to listen on line on the top bar. Under the pic of "God as he longs for you to see him" is a listen or download choice. choose daily boadcast Go to May 26. Please post your comments. We will share them next week in group.
So, the questions for the icebreakers are as follows:
1. If you could be a cereal box cartoon character for just 24 hours, who would you be?
2. On the hottest day of the year, what do you drink to quench your thirst?
3. You are making your beloved his favorite dessert. What is it?
4. What would you leave in your will for the person you cared about the most?
5. What do you consider the most valuable thing you own when you were a teen and now?
6. If you were to perform in a circus, what would you be?
7. If you could have been told one thing that you weren't told when you were a teen, what would you have liked to hear?
8. Name your favorite song
9, When trick or treating as a kid what kind of candy didn't you like to get?
10.What is one characteristic, physical, spiritual, emotional that sets you apart from everyone else?
Last, each week there will be an affirmation that we will focus on as we read. One chapter of the book per week. As you find truths that strike you, share them. This is mine for week one. You are beautiful, my sisters. To me as well as to the One who created you! You are His passion!!
My precious child,
I made you different from the others. On the planet Earth there has never been one like you...and there never will be again. Psalm 139:13-16
Adapted from "The Lost Choice" Andy Andrews.
Be blessed.
XOXO
K
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The first evening in the park was great! we haven't started the book yet, so there's still time to join us. Next Thurs.at 7pm, Gantz Park. Krista, great job with the questions. Can't wait to get into the book. I sure need some assurance that SOMEONE still says I'm beautiful at this point in my life. On the heels of reading So Long Insecurities, this should be a good follow up study. If I never hear I am beautiful from another human being, I can be sure that God thinks I am. So glad you chose this book. Love ya
ReplyDeleteThank Flota for the choice, Cath!! As I was reading the chapter tonight and looking at Shawna's two little ones I realized that our grousing about our looks and bodies sends a terrible message to the young ones around us. If we are consumed with our looks, how can we expect anything different from them?? It would kill me to hear one of them say, "Miss Krista, I am ugly (fat, stupid, unlovable)". It is a lie that none of us should tolerate. We are daughters of the KING!!! Isaiah 29:16 says How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, “He didn’t make me”?Does a jar ever say, “The potter who made me is stupid”?
ReplyDeleteWho are we to tell God that He messed up??? I don't know about the rest of you, but when I stand in judgment at the end of my life, I don't want to hear God tell me I missed it because I was so absorbed in my looks that I didn't see the beauty in me and around me.
Girls, you are beautiful. Over the next few weeks we are going to come to learn that our beauty has been sold to the lowest bidder. We have sold ourselves into slavery and didn't even see it coming...
Love to all.
XOXO
K
Who Calls Me Beautiful Page 10 says,
ReplyDeleteIn his article 'What You See Is What I Am,' youth culture expert Walt Mueller wrote,
Our entire culture-children and adults alike-is living a lifestyle that screams, 'I am what I look like" A walk through any shopping mall conrirms this fact. Have you noticed how many businesses, advertisements, and items of merchandise are sold to improbe omage and appearance?
Hair products promise to give more bounce to curls or remove unwanted curl. Skin products promise blemish-free skin when we're young and wrinkle-free skin when we're old. We are obsessed with self-dissatisfaction.
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It seems to me that our problem is one of contentment and it starts very early in life. "I can't wait until my birthday. I can't wait until Christmas. I can't wait until school starts. I can't wait until it is over." We wish our lives away. " I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish I were married. I wish I had kids. I wish the kids were older. I wish the kids would grow up. I wish the house wasn't so empty. I wish he were home more. I wish he would leave me alone. I wish I were single.I wish I would hurt anymore. I wish I made a difference. I wish I wish I wish....
Always wanting more than what we have. That is the start of the whole beautiful thing. Wanting what others have and not wanting what I have been given. It is up to us to decide when this cycle of stinkin' thinkin' will end. " Will I ever be more than I am right now??? What if.. What if, this is what I am supposed to be and I miss the joy of the moment? What if this is as good as it gets???" Some of you are sitting there in your misery and circumstances praying that this isn't all there is. I get that. Been there- bought the T-shirt. Really don't care to go back there again...
Having said that, I am a firm believer that every good and bad thing that happened in my life has built to bring me to where I am today. Where am I? A half century old, yet better today than I have ever been in my life. Physically, not sound, but more aware of how fragile life is. Emotionally, still tentative, but no longer bleeding profusely from wounds inflicted by others. Socially, still a little afraid to tell you who I am for fear you will think me too needy. Truth be told, I have more people who love me deeply than I have ever had and most of them know the bulk of what there is to know and love me anyway! Spiritually, I am no where near the kind of person God created me to be, but because of His great grace and mercy, I am closer than I was yesterday and grateful that He has given me one more moment to grow in knowledge of Him.
Gratitude is the key that unlocks the door to contentment. Today, I choose to live my life. Today I choose to celebrate the way God made me. Today, just for today, I choose to worship not myself, but my Creator who doesn't make mistakes. I am chosen, adopted, redeemed, loved and beautiful. Thank you Lord.
God, don't let me wish this moment away as I wait for the next milestone in my life. Help me to number my days so that I can live them as I should growing in wisdom and strength.
XOXO
K