In case you are catching up, I was asked to be the special events coordinator for our women's board at church. Part of this job was helping to plan the Beth Moore Event I blogged about a few posts ago. I also have helped with coordinating our "Summertime Talks" we have held throughout the summer and my biggest event of the year will be planning our annual Christmas "event". It used to be a Christmas tea, but we scrapped the tea thing because we would get hundreds of teacups from women from the church to use and it was a nightmare to get them back to them all. This is our biggest outreach of the year as we usually get 200 or so women and many of them don't attend ours or any church.
Anyway, our board recently had our overnight retreat and we were assigned this book to read:
Now, I should have known that our Women's Ministry Director would have never chosen a "fluffy" book for us to read, but when I got it, I really had my doubts. Well, I actually did get it read for the event and I really have to say that I enjoyed it and was challenged by it.
This book discussed our Christian life as training for the race for the prize and then discusses ten different disciplines or practices to focus on. I know...I know that was probably not good English ending a sentence in a preposition, but "on which to focus" sounded clumsy to me. But I digress.....I really did enjoy this book and I have decided that I want to focus on adding or improving one of these practices each month. The first one is the practice of celebrating....this could be a really fun month! As a matter of fact, I do want to find more joy in all that I do and learn to celebrate the little things. Hopefully, I can keep you all posted on how I am celebrating each day and you will keep me accountable.
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