New Year....New Me

It has been awhile. I just wanted to blog today because I started a bible study last night and I am going to another one this morning. This is a very new thing for me. I have gone to church for the last 6 years that does small groups instead of Sunday School. It is formed from the concept of the Holy Spirit revival from Acts where large groups of people met in the temple and small groups in other people's homes. Well, I have NEVER in all these 6 years, become a part of a small group out of fear and shyness.

Well, when Lucas was born, we had to switch churches. The church we had been attending for 5 years was an hour round trip. and with 3 kids, that was just too much. So we decided to try Real Life Fellowship, which is about ooooooo......1 mile from my house. lol. Maybe 2 miles. Anyways, LOVE LOVE this church. We miss our old church of course. Actually we miss it alot, but that is to be expected. But our new church WE LOVE!!! My mom has even started coming because she just loves the preaching. Well, as we all know....once mom gets involved, we can get hooked into stuff a little out of our comfort zone. lol.

So mom talked me into signing up for a small group. So I signed up for 3!!! One is a play group. The other is called First Place 4 Health. It is a healthy living bible study, with a food and exercise tracker journal, bible study, and a weekly weigh-in and talk. Then the other one is a study on Esther by Beth Moore.

I missed the play group this week because I was busy taking my animals to the vet and then completly forgot. But I am going to go next week.

Last night was the First Place 4 Health:

Since I am new to these bible studies, maybe I am not used to this. But the first like 45 minutes (maybe it wasn't that long, but it was close) was a DVD of other ladies talking at a bigger bible study. I got SUPER bored. I had fun once the live humans began talking. I tried to find bible studies that did not say they were DVD led. But maybe they all are. I will let you know more though. But the way the live human lady talked, normally there will not be any DVD - it was just the intro.

One thing the DVD woman said that really stuck with me was that "Food is for fuel, not for worship". I thought that was really cool way to train yourself. For example, I always put sugar on my fruit. Well, it really tastes good by itself, there is no need for sugar to fuel yourself.

I do not have any of the books yet. She gave us copies of the food tracker sheet. So everyday I am supposed to track on this sheet all that I eat, my exercise, and a daily scripture. She said once we get the books, we will have more of a food plan, but until next week, just to track.

I am going to the Esther study at 10am!! :)

So moral of this story.....VENTURE OUT THIS YEAR AND TRY SOMETHING OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE. YOU'LL BE HAPPY YOU DID!!