The consensus seems to be that folks would rather just skip this week and continue on next week. We'll just keep the same questions and continue where we left off.
You know you have too many email addresses when you get them confused with each other! To let me know about Monday's study, email denipath4change at yahoo.com not the addy in the post below. sheesh.
Questions for chapter 15:
Here is the link to last night's chat - Monday, May 18. Thanks to all who participated! It was really a great evening of sharing. I appreciate all of the input you all bring with you each Monday. I'll see if I can post this coming weeks questions sooner - please continue praying that I get over this latest flare. Hugs to you all.
Here is the link to LAST WEEKS transcript. I guess I forgot to post it. Oooops. :)
Sunday the 17 of May we will be continuing with 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. I am hoping to cover self-seeking and anger, but will only go as fast as the Lord leads the chat.
I feel I am letting you all down this week, but I am still ill. If I were to put questions together for you it would be a half-hearted attempt and this book deserves better that that.
Better late than never?? I've been sick this week and haven't gotten questions up or the link posted. I hope to have the questions up today. Here is the link to the transcript.
Jen IM'D me that the baby is just fine but extremely active, she/he was doing 360's and had hiccups during the ultrasound.
Please continue to pray for Ela, Jen's MIL even though she didn't go to the hospital but should have, she is still suffering abdominal pain and nausea every time she eats and can't afford to lose anymore weight. From what I gathered she hasn't been eating well ever since her surgery and that is not healthy. She is fighting having to go to hospital so am praying for a miraculous healing so she doesn't. Thank you for all your prayers.
I would appreciate prayer for 2 special women in my life. The first is my oldest daughter Jennifer. As some of you know she is expecting my next grandchild in October. Yesterday they couldn't hear the heartbeat, so are sending her in for an emergency ultrasound. Its our prayer that the baby was just too active to be able to hear it and that the baby is just fine and there will be NO COMPLICATIONS with this pregnancy (last time Jen became diabetic during her pregnancy as well as having to have a C-section to name a couple).
The second is for Jennifer's Mother In Law Ela(Elizabeth). She has recently undergone bowel surgery and is now having stomach problems. She is being hospitalized for a few days(it sounds serious and I don't have all of the info yet as its a sudden situation).She has become a wonderful friend of mine and a joy to my daughter an grandson. I pray that God heals her to spend many happy healthy years with our family. Ela has asked for prayer and I am asking all of you to join with me that she is miraculously healed and back home right quick to play wordscapper with me on facebook and plan wonderful gifts to make
for our grandchildren.
Thank you in advance for all your prayers.
AT THE FEET OF THE DRAGON
Waking from a nightmare,
Looking about the room,
I've such a sense of hopelessness,
Of fear and dread and doom.
The terrors still inside me,
As I reach to find the light.
I hear a sound, a quiet sound,
My eyes search out the night.
And slowly there before me,
A phantom figure grows.
I strain to see the shape it takes,
but my fearful heart, it knows.
It is my nightmare, once again,
A fearsome entity.
A dragon-monster, dark and grim
That no one else can see.
He chortles low, with rasping voice,
"You thought youd get away?
The time has come to face me child.
There is no other way."
"Time and again, we've met in dreams.
Time and again you've fled.
And since you will not bide with me,
I've come to you instead."
"This cant be real!" I fling at him.
You're just part of a dream!
His hiss is soft, his eyes grow dark.
"Things aren't the way they seem."
I glance around. I want to run.
I need to get away.
Yet something stirs inside of me,
Compelling me to stay.
I shout at him, "Who are you?"
I flail at him in vain.
"What is your name? Why are you here?
I beg you to explain!"
" Explain myself?" he scoffs at me.
"Explain my self to you?"
He hovers close. His dark eyes glare.
"That's not for me to do."
"And yet, I'll tell you who I am.
It matters not, you see . . ."
I feel the darkness all around
As he draws close to me.
"I've many names." The words spit out.
"You know me well it's true.
I'm all the things you run from child.
I'll number them for you.
"I'm fear of death, and dying too.
I'm pain from in the past.
I'm changes you cant bear to see.
I'm heartbreak that will last.
"I'm craven fear. I'm emptiness.
The void from which you hide.
Each terror you cant bear to face.
I'm all your fears, inside!
"And as you look inside yourself,
You'll find me there its true.
For every time you start to fear,
You'll sense me there. In you.
"The dark, the bleak, the unknown fear,
Will well up from inside.
But you can face me if you choose.
And then you can decide.
"To call my name and walk with me,
Or slay me as you will.
You'll conquer me as best you can.
But I'll be with you still.
"You've run in fear so many times,
But now that's at an end.
You need to hear the words I speak.
You need to call me friend."
"Make friends with you?" I want to shout.
"Make friends with all that pain?
I've put all that behind me now.
Theres nothing more to gain!"
But deep inside, I hear the words,
and know that they are true.
I bow my head, and murmur low,
"I've much to learn from you."
And as I sit and ponder on
the words he speaks, so wise,
I notice how my terror ebbs.
My fear's a smaller size.
And I can face the darkness now.
No longer run away.
I find I want to walk with him.
I find I want to stay.
Embracing fear, while frightened still,
Is finally what I've done.
And with this hope in front of me,
I'll walk from him. Not run.
I turn to face my dragon.
"I've learned a lot from you.
But this is not the end for us.
This much I know is true."
"One day soon, I'll know its you,
When fears begin inside.
I'll know you're not a foe to me.
There is no need to hide."
"And for your words and strength I'll reach.
I'll sit down at your feet.
I'll look into the depths of you
And say, 'Friend Dragon,
Teach.'"
Copyright 1993 - Diane Hansen
I've had a few short emails from Lynne. From what I am able to understand from them she had a heart attack yesterday and is in the hospital. They need to do several procedures to assess heart damage, but are unable to as she also has a staph infection, I think from a medication that lowered her immune system. Please be in prayer for Lynne. In all of this, she wanted me to know why she would not be at the book study. I am awestruck by how confident she is, that in the midst of this, God is in control. Pray for wisdom for the doctors, and healing for her body. She IS in God's hands, and for that we can be grateful.
So far we don't have enough folks to start the Sunday study of Hinds' Feet. I have decided to wait one more week to see if we have others who would like to attend. If we have three or more additional folks who'd like to attend that would be great! If we hear from folks this week, we will start next Sunday at 3:30, although several folks have said that is not a good time for them. Let me know if starting at 7:00 pm in the evening would be better as perhaps a switch is time is all that is needed for this to work.
