I Have Found My Place

Wednesday afternoons present quite a few challenges, especially when you make a commitment to attend the 6:30 p.m. Bible Study.

The kids and I were home from the school just shortly after 3. I let them run around play outside, argue with each other and then just after 4:30 the bathing process begins. my daughter was first, washed, dried, and oiled. Then my son repeat process.

Easy peasy supper which is basically not good for you at all food, but we needed to be ready to roll by 6:15. Homework is completed, supper is eaten and cleaned up. A quick phone call to check on my oldest son, and then somehow I got it in my brain that we were late.

I usher, more like herd fast out the door to the mini van. They have jackets over their jammies, and they are hyper! My daughter also has two mermaid dolls with her.

 Such a great feeling to know that they were excited about going. They were running to the van. It warms you up on a cold day like this. Once in the van and heading down our street I realize that it is only 6:07. But I still pat myself on my back. This way I will have time to get them from the parking lot and to their classrooms and a moment to sit down in the classroom and breathe out a sigh of "you did it"

Of course my daughter is running, she never walks anywhere. And as soon as her little feet hit the sidewalk she face plants and then as she is trying to get up she steps on one of the mermaids hair and nearly falls again. Finally we are inside and they are dropped off and I am free! Well, for an hour.

I LOVED the class from the moment I walked in the room. There were so many warm welcoming and smiling faces. Some I saw on Tuesday at that Bible study and some I see at the Y.

We learned names, said either our favorite name or book and ate a cookie! I know that this class is going to feed that empty part of me. I know that by the time this year draws to a close and it is time for my next adventure, that this church will be hard to leave.

I had always thought this church must be snobby because it was so big and sat so far back from the main road, up on a hill. But is nothing like I had imagined. There are so many different types of people there. I feel like I have stepped in to the light. For many years now I have been seeking this, some of those years, I didn't even know that this was exactly what I was seeking.

This is going to be a great year. God is truly working in my life.

January 13, 2016

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.