Monday, December 27, 2010
Welcome
Hello everyone---We are going to enter an exciting study by Timothy Keller on praying through the Psalms. I hope that this study will challenge us and develop our spiritual selves all the more. By now you should have all received the study file. We will begin the study January 10, 2011. Each week I will assign a reading and you will have opportunity to post on this blog. Post what ever the Lord is leading you. All of us will have a chance to read the posts and comment.
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Hi friends,
Kathy thanks for taking the time and effort to set up this reflective learning group.
For those who do not yet know me, my name is Kimberley. I love to engage life at a maximum level - I guess "go big or go home" could be a motto that describes my approach to life. I am an all or nothing sort of girl.
I function out of the belief that everyone has a predominant obsession that repeatedly dispossesses other smaller claims to their affection. For most of my life, in an often turbulent but generally consistent faithfulness in one direction, that obsession has been Jesus Christ.
I look forward to 2011 and specifically to engaging transformational thought and reflective practice because of my journey with you, my fellow-learners in this cohort. I am currently working on a doctorate in Missiology at Fuller Seminary as well as a year long course of study on Soul Care through a monastery in Portland Oregon - but, I shall try to remain in solidarity with our readings and responses on this site.
I live and love life in the lower mainland of British Columbia where I am a wife, mother, grandmother, life-long learner, and pastor.
All strapped in and ready for the ride...love love love tk just finished his prodigal God bible study with a small group of vocaional ministers of one form or another...very interesting! I was just gratful we were all at a place of brokeness and humility not bitterness and anger. Currently on my spiritual journey I am dreamless but totally encouraged with new love and hope for the body of christ. My relationship with God is my own and have a beautiful new found freedom in my love relatonship with Him..which i think is an awesome consequence of some costly obedience and fearless radical intervention by some christ loving members of the Body. Currently working on the courage to know and be known in a new community, parenting with faith and not fear, loving my hubby in this new age and stage of marriage and life and lastly doing it all in a church enviroment that is completely different then what i was use to and relied on..so i have plenty to pray about and would love to do it more ferverently and effectively.
My thanks also to you Kathy , especially the hands on stuff tonight . I was beginning to think possibly I was not meant to take part in this study . :)Hopefully it is all ironed out now . Happy 2011 everyone !
Ah Kim, possibly we are all touched with that "live life at the max"level.I will have to admit that it sounds familiar to me but I will also have to admit that I have begun to wonder about just how smart it is !
I also agree with the"predominant obsession that disposes of others of lesser claim," but I find myself trying to balance two dominant ones...My God and my art. I guess if I were completely honest, I would say that I would like to totally lose myself in going to a much deeper level with the Lord and in fact I have done some of that but no where near as much as I had intended. On the other hand , I think my quilts play a part in the mix also so back and forth I go !
Kim, I was thinking of the personality test you did with us and how it surprisingly nailed me with this swing back and forth personality which I have always more than expected that I had. I guess the above is more of the same .
Anyway, here I am and hopefully this study of the Word will bring each of us to a closer relationship with Christ and a stronger awareness of his constant power and presence in our lives.
I enjoyed the assigned exercises.
Joyce
WOW ! It worked ! I am impressed!!
Joyce
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