Monday, June 14, 2010

I adore Angela Thomas :-)

Tonight was our first night in a new 7 week Bible study. We are doing Angela Thomas's DVD study "Do You Think I'm Beautiful?" and I am in love with it! I know a couple of the ladies just as acquaintences from Church- two are fellow AWANA leaders, and the others I did not know. I can say that I love the group so far! The personalities are a great fit, and I didn't feel like a babbling idiot when Angela brought me to tears, because I wasn't the only one weeping ;-) I can't wait to dive into my homework this week, even though I know this is going to be an intense study. I stole this description from www.christianbook.com/think-beautiful-question-every-woman-asks/angela-thomas/9780785273776/pd/73778


Little girls know about Cinderella---about her breathtaking beauty, about Prince Charming, about a magical destiny called "happily ever after." And inside every woman is a little girl who secretly aches for a fairy godmother to wave a wand and transform her into the princess she has always longed to be. To make her beautiful. Captivating. Adored.
But we've learned that fairy tales aren't real, so we squelch our precious gifts of longing and desire. We stop dressing up or anticipating the ball, deciding it's better to stay home than to hope again and be disappointed. Besides, being asked to dance isn't all that important anyway.

Oh, but it is! In Do You Think I'm Beautiful, Thomas invites you to awaken your passion and glimpse your deepest desires. To voice your longing to be loved with an ultimate love. And to fall into the embrace of the One who asks you to dance.



::sigh:: She is just AWESOME! I was blessed to see her at the Extraordinary Women conference at the Metrocentre last year... and WOW! I'm soooo excited to see her again this year! If there is any chance at all you can get to one near you, I highly recommend it! http://www.ewomen.net/ I'm getting my tickets now :)

And one more link, for those who made it this far: www.angelathomas.com/ This is Angela's page, in case you don't know who she is or why she is so awesome LOL

YAY! A blog!!!

What to write, what to write? I've spent the past day or so thinking that an inaugaral blog ought to be awesome, profound, or at least memorable.. but no great ideas were coming to me, and I realized I was just going to wind up with an eternally empty blog at this rate! Sooo... I'll just settle for getting the awkward "first time" done and over with and move on from there :-)

I honestly have no idea what I plan on doing with this blog, but all the "cool" people seem to have one, and darn it, I want to be cool! I certainly don't have time for a new hobby, but on the other hand, I do have access to this site from work... so maybe I can use it during down time there. I also have my "private blog" with all my unmentionable rantings... so I guess I'm intending this one to be more public appropriate LOL.

Anyway- I'm heading out to the first night of my "Do You Think I'm Beautiful?" bible study (YAY!) so I'll call this the end of the beginning....