Good ole Sunday

Wow, what a great day! Dan and I had a great time in our Sunday School today. I am so excited to see the kind of men and women God is growing this bunch of young adults into. They are pretty great in my book. We had a pretty powerful discussion today about God being just, slow to anger and abounding in love and what that all looks like. Then the service was exactly what Dan and I had been praying for the young men in the Sunday School. It's been a personal burden of mine to be counter cultural as far as what this culture tells men their worth is. I really want to counteract what Hollywood says about the roles of men and women. I am excited to see how that will play out in areas of ministry as well as in my own marriage. One area that I struggle with that I know a lot of women who also struggle with is my tone of voice. Men need to feel respected as woman need to feel loved. I know some times my tone does not show respect but condescension and tells Dan I don't submit to his authority with humility and love but begrudgingly. I don't like that I do that so my prayer is to combat that. It's so easy to be snappish off the cuff than to hold my tongue. Dan and I had a talk about this at Barnes & Nobles the other day. I just bought the book, For Women Only which my church recently did a Bible study on but I couldn't attend. It is proving to be an enlightening book.

I am so excited to be starting work tomorrow. It will be a new experience for me as I do not have a lot of experience in the area of fund raising and that is what I will be doing primarily. It should be rather exciting. Thank you all for your prayers. I can really feel them in my life. Dan and I will be waiting for a while for where he will work and what he will do. It is exciting to look forward to but I know Satan can turn that into anxiousness. He's a cunning little bugger. I am continuing to pray for you all. There seems to always be something doesn't it? Moving, job changes, family shifts, new members into the family, losing members in the family, new stages in life that bring new responsibility. I'm beginning to think that life is one big roller coaster and we all better just hang on because there is no "When things get back to normal." I don't suppose though I would want it any other way. I'm loving the ride.