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pupil
Posted on: 03/12/2012 09:54
My Wednesday morning bible study group at my church has become a very important part of my week. I wouldn’t miss it. I walked in there one day a little more than a year ago, and right away knew I had walked into a blessing. I had been in another bible study group before, one that was also very meaningful to me but that group came to an end and this had corresponded with my move to another town. At the time I was considering going back to school and studying further. I was very enthusiastic about finding a new group which I did immediately, but soon after discovered I could not belong in that group. I either had to stay and pretend I was comfortable with a lack of discussion or I had to go, so I went. Actually I fled after a member of the group stood behind me and demanded that Satan leave me.[I had questioned, not out of rudeness but because I thought that study implied discussion. Apparently this isn’t so. Sometimes study means something else entirely.
The bible study group at my current church has been meeting together for decades. It is mostly older women. Most have known each other literally forever. I was a little thrown off when I first entered the room because I was uncertain how well I could fit into a group where most members were 20 or more years my senior and who were held together by an incredible amount of history. They were so warm and welcoming and it was very much a relief to find open intelligent discussion. This is where I am most in tune to my soul. I am with God when I am in that room. When I am prayed for I feel the presence strong and clear. I am in the right place and I know this because my questions are welcome and the sense of history among these women is somehow shared with me because every Wednesday at 9:45 time is put on hold and the soul is nurtured.