Alabama beat Auburn. (very badly, I might add). Steve and I got to the hotel in DC just in time for kick-off. It was great!!
Our trip was fantastic. It was so nice to just have time with the two of us together. No diapers to change, no one calling for help through out the night---just us and the sights of Washington. Of course we did all the touristy things (walked a zillion miles doing them).
We worshipped Sunday with the Wildercroft church. It was truly a blessing. We saw an 82 year old friend we hadn't seen in several years. She and her husband visited at Oakland several times when Steve was preaching there.
Her husband (an elder at this church) has since died. He was buried at Arlington Cemetery. She insisted on taking us to lunch Sunday so we could get re-acquainted. I think her brain is better than mine.
Anyway, 50 got off to a great start! Thank you so much for all the good wishes :)
Sommer, thank you SO MUCH for taking time off to stay with Kathleen so we could take the trip. We know it's not an easy thing to do, and we appreciate your willingness to do it!!
Last week I had an occasion to spend about an hour talking to a friend that is a Baptist. She's 62 and for the first time ever in her life, began teaching a ladies Bible class a couple of months ago. I asked her what she was teaching in the class and she replied that they were studying about David. During the course of the conversation, the following facts emerged.
1. She didn't know David wrote any of the Psalms.
2. She didn't know David was a shepherd.
3. She didn't understand that whole thing with Bathsheeba or how David committed murder.
4. She thought that at the end of Nathan's story to David about the man that had the little ewe lamb, when Nathan said "Thou art the man", that it was like today when you high five someone and say "You're the man!!". In other words, she thought Nathan was saying what a great guy David was.
5. She thought David built the temple.
So after we had been talking about 20 minutes and all of this had come out, I ask her if maybe I could help her understand things a little better. She was very enthusiastic, so I began with, "It was the time of year when kings went off to war...." and took about 15 minutes to tell her the story.
She was very excited about it when I finshed and said how much clearer everything was. She wanted to know how someone was suppose to know what Nathan meant by his statement just by reading the Bible.
Anyway, I ended up feeling really good when I left, thinking that maybe I had helped her, and maybe it will lead to more discussions. This was one opportunity that God gave me that I didn't squander. I pray I said what she needed to hear.
Wow, that's amazing...that's she's teaching a class on a subject she obviously has not got a grasp on yet. Great job on teaching her - and hope that she will become more interested in other aspects of the Bible story to include the true story of the plan of salvation.
It is sad that so many people are "teaching" the Bible and have no idea what they are talking about. I am glad that you had and took the opportunity to teach her "more accurately." If she is interested in truth, you will probably hear from her again. Btw, I hear that you and Steve are doing an excellent work at New Georgia!
Wow. Upon reading your last two posts, my first instinct was actually to laugh, but I couldn't quite do it. Glad you had the confidence to help her out.
A woman I work with recently divorced either her 4th or 5th husband. I don't remember which. One of the dilemma's in the situation is in knowing what to say. Do I say "I'm sorry."? Scripturally, she has no right to be married (he doesn't either). But that's not what this post is about. I mean, the post is about her situation, but not about not knowing what to say.
Last Wednesday she was talking about the situation and how great things are between them now that they are divorced. They're continuing as roommates until they sell their house. He lives upstairs, she lives downstairs. Life is so much better. They are both so much happier.
In today's arrest report in the newspaper, I saw that he was arrested for 3rd degree domestic assault.
The only thing I can think of is to tell her that you don't know what to say,and then ask if she would like to study the Bible with you some time because God has the answers for our lives. (II Peter 1:3)
That is so sad. And you can be sorry for her situation, maybe not sorry that she was ever married that many times, etc. She definitely needs some help, spiritually and mentally (and the former can help alot with the latter).
