There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability;
there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. - M. Scott Peck



Thursday, March 4, 2010

Paradigm Shift

First Blog ever -

this week in my small group... we watched Wk 2 instead of Wk 3 - oops. It turned out that the message on Filling Our Cups was pretty relevant anyway. My group is made up of moms with kids of all ages. About half of the women work outside the home and half stay home with our respective rowdy, character-building bunch.

All of us pour out energy, focus, creativity into the lives of those around us.
All of us struggle to refill our own cups.
We do the small things that sort of fill us up a bit: little past times, coffee, exercise and other quick energy boosts.
Most of us have a patchy habit of turning to God for that life-giving water.

Anyway, one woman said that the message she heard completely echoed what she had been struggling with - that she has limits and needs to ackowledge them because that's part of being a human. She was so grateful for the affirmation of "a major, needed shift in thinking."

Thanks God, for this small group of women, for Your Word and Spirit to guide us and for relevant, applicable, understandable messages.

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