* dear God, are you kidding me? …

Posted on April 15th, 2009 by melinda in The Church House

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Hi! Happy Wednesday. I just have to share something with y’all tonight. Just in case you didn’t know … God has a wicked sense of humor. I lie you not. I learned this lesson first hand tonight. As most of you probably know by now, I have been teaching our Wednesday night Bible Study down at the Church House since around November. If you didn’t know it or you just want to laugh at me … go here and read all about how that came to fruition. Anyway, tonight was my last night of teaching Bible Study, I have been fired um transferred to the youth group. We’ll get back to that in a minute. But for now I want to discuss God’s sense of humor. Our churh house is small, on Wednesday nights we usually have about 25 – 30 adults in Bible Study. Since tonight was going to be my last night teaching, I decided it would be a good time to share my personal testimony with my Bible Study victims folks. We have a unique bond, I love them, they love me. They understand me, they get me (or at least they do a good job of pretending to) … thus I am very comfortable with them & don’t mind sharing personal, intimate details of my life and my faith with them. So I work diligently, I write and I write, I tweek and tweek some more, finally getting exactly what I want to share prepared & ready to go. I head to the Church House, walk through the door and immediately think “what in the name of tarnation is going on here? who are all these people? where did they come from? and how can I possibly give my testimony in front of all of them”? There were like 10000 40 people there. I don’t have a clue where they came from or why they were there but they were there. I didnt have anything else ready! So my options were A. go with what I had prepared or B. tell everyone I have suddenly contracted amnesia or diarreah (die rear as mamaw would’ve said), either would’ve been better than option A. I know God was laughing at with me. I don’t normally get nervous but tonight I was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. But I womanned up, I went with option A. and I’m glad I did. I may have sounded like a blubbering bafoon but I did it. I sucked it up … I was a big girl. Ok, I was kind of a big girl. It was probably the quickest testimony in the history of the world but I did it. The lesson to be learned here is this … if I can do that, anyone can. So feel free to share, I would love to listen to or read your testimony.

As for Bible Study, I am so going to miss teaching. But at the same time, I am very excited about Richard & myself being the youth leaders. Y’all might want to keep our youth in your prayers. Bless um! I am so blessed to have my church family, I love them. I am secretly plotting to recruit some of our adults to help us with youth stuff. Y’all go ahead and get prepared to volunteer cause I’m not scared to call you out! I am also curious to see what Eric has instore for the adults and even more anxious to see what they may have instore for him! Mr. preacher man is sure to have his hands full. And for all you first time Bible Study goers … y’all come back now, ya hear! Any of the rest of you who may not go to church on Wednesday nights, now would be a great time to come join us at Mt. Wesley, you’ll even get to listen to someone who is very intelligent about Bible stuff.

me.

3 Comments on “* dear God, are you kidding me? …”

  1. chrisi

    mom- i’m so proud of you! i wish i could’ve been upstairs to hear it. love you!

  2. Judy

    I am really sad that you are going to the youth. I will miss you and I know my folks will. I pray God will bless you in this. You do not know how much I have enjoyed being there, I guess you can say you got me back to church on Wednesdays. I know in my heart that the youth will reap all the benefits of this change. Love ya!

  3. melinda

    Dear Judy, I cannot begin to tell you how much you & Haley both being there has meant to me. I will miss y’all terribly too and I really hope Haley will come help us out with the youth sometimes, I think she could be such a strong influence on some of the younger girls. And I really really hope y’all will continue to come on Wednesday nights & Sunday too, I just feel like God has such great things in store for our church family … I am so excited to be a part of it. Hugs and more hugs! I love you my sweet friend.

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