Me, Myself, and Lies

I just finished doing a short summer biblestudy with a group of ladies this summer. Beth Moore promoted a study on her blog by Jennifer Rothschild, an amazing author who is blind. Me Myself, & Lies was a self talk study about how to replace the lies you may have been telling yourself with the truth from God’s word. This six-week Bible study for women encourages them to clean out the junk in their thoughts and replace these hidden negative thoughts and failures with positive truths from God’s word. Rather than struggling with self-esteem, body image, stress and other unhealthy thoughts and emotions learn to replace the lies you may have been telling yourself with the truth from God’s word.



So I felt called to lead this biblestudy at my home for 7 weeks during June-August. I had another one of those Holy Spirit moments in my kitchen after visiting a friend in the hospital in May after she had her first baby boy. The Lord laid 15 names on my heart to welcome into my home. I even wrote them down, in the clarity of the moment. It was a montage of believers, those who had never been to church or had even opened up a Bible, and some in between. I hosted them for 7 straight weeks, with the enticement of dinner each time to fill their bellies. In turn, these girls were awesome in bringing an appaetizer and a dessert each week to help out with the amount of food I had to cook. I had never been so bold before, and for such a long period of time. It was basically two of my very close groups of friends, all coming together each week to do a biblestudy.

The Lord was so faithful as each week they would keep showing up, some weeks more of them than others. I didn't get stressed preparing food each week, getting my house picked up, or making sure Justin was in bed asleep before they showed up. All that in itself was huge. My sweet hubby was such a trooper each week helping me prepare food, take care of Justin each Tuesday night, and then disappearing from the house for several hours before coming home to a quiet house. What was so sweet and special was that though not everyone believed in the same things, much less what I put my faith in, they still bared their souls, asked the questions that were hard to answer, and did their daily homework.

And I felt such a peace about my season of life that the Lord has me in currently. I kept thanking Him for His perfect timing - I don't think I would have had the energy to do it had I been pregnant or had a newborn in the house. This biblestudy this summer was my baby, and I cherished having a small part in working for the kingdom. This season of life right now is a season of servanthood. I told these girls on our last night of the study, that though these past 20 months have been some of the hardest of my life, I have never felt more at peace. Thank you Jesus for peace. My hope was that by me loving on these girls that they would feel even the smallest piece of love that the Lord is offering them. That He is pursuing them, wanting to be a part of their lives. Just like He is pursuing you as well....