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Your discussions in this gathering will revolve around different points in your homework. Two from Week One. Two from Week Two:
1. Look back at the middle of page 12 where Kelly had us look up Deuteronomy 23 and Judges 3 to get some background on the Moabites. Read Deuteronomy 23:3-5 together if you’re not watching this as a small group. In your small group, I want you to talk about a few things that have happened in your lives that Satan would love to use to curse you. You can think of it conceptually more than literally if that helps. At the end of class today, I want you to claim that fifth verse together in prayer and believe God to turn those curses into blessings!
2. Turn to the middle of Week One, to the bottom of p.21 and the top of p.22. I loved Kelly’s discussion about her friend “weeping forward.” What do you think that means? Several of you share a season in your life when you feel like you wept forward and several others might consider sharing a season in your life when you wept backward. Most of us have done both at some point in our lives.
The next two are from Week Two:
3. OK, Day Two has a portion that is vintage Kelly Minter and one reason why I love her writing so much. Look at the second paragraph on p.42 where she tells about her sister, Megan. If you were writing a novel that was secretly about yourself right now and right in this season and you had to name it in the form of a question, what would it be?
4. Turn to p.45 and review the part of your homework concerning Psalm 126. Please read the psalm together then discuss your answers to the “Personal Response” question: Practically speaking, how can you sow in your weeping? Don’t miss how much this section has to do with your second discussion question today.
In closing, one of you read the Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote at the end. Let it lead you into prayer and don’t forget to claim those blessings from our first discussion question today!
For all of you participating in the fellowship meal, consider the recipes on pages 62-63 and either do them or some Italian equivalent.
I am so happy to study with you! Stay in the Word and I’ll see you in two more weeks!
2 comments:
Our group of 6 was only 3 last evening. We had a wonderful time. We enjoyed a meal of chicken enchiladas from page 32. The discussion was good. On discussion pt. 2 we came up with many ways we have wept forward and backward. One said the season in which she is in is weeping forward.
Novel titles were fun, one was "How can I be a good mother to my adult children without becoming my Mother". Another was "What did I do to diserve this?
We found alot of common ground between questions 2 and 4. As we go through lifes trials, we should be sowing and weeping. We also discussed that we should weep with others going through trials we may have already been through.
Thank you Beth for leading us in this summer siesta.
The Gals from Camdenton, MO
Another Small Group from Theo!:
1. Sharing a Season in our life when we felt like we were weaping frorward and/or backward. There were many comments here...we've been discussing this for two weeks and find that sowing while we are reaping is HARD, yet essential to personal growth.
2. This one was absolutely fun! If writing a novel that was about yourself (in your season now), what would the title be in the form of a question. Hmmm...our answers included
a) How Can I Be Re-newed?
b) Where To Now?
c) How Do I Get Up?
c) How Are You Going To Deliver Me?
3. How would Satan use our past to curse us? We all concluded that a secret past can be used as a curse. Yet, Kay Arthur openly speaks of her past, there are no secrets...making it harder to pull a punch! We felt that being honest about ourself and our past helps to prevent that...not that it's a cure.
4. How Can we Sow in Our Weeping? With the help of God and our family in Christ!
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