The Bible Study of Estrogen~I mean Esther

Today is the beginning of the third year of a ladies Bible study group that a friend of mine and I started in the fall of 2007. If any of you have ever read the Yada-Yada Prayer Group books by Neta Jackson, then you can have a fairly good idea of the composition of our group. We are a group of 10 ladies give or take a few. The group has changed since we began as some have stayed, some have left and others have come. We are mostly in our fifties with one in her forties and a couple beyond their fifties:) We are a hodge-podge of denominations with the same belief in The One True God. God is using each of us to encourage one another when we have a difficult day, when we are afraid to try something risky, when we need a listening ear and just to be there for each other for all the other stuff. We have studied The Life You've Always Wanted by Jon Ortberg, The Lord's Prayer, If You Want to Walk on Water You Have to Get Out of the Boat, also by Ortberg, lessons from each of us as we shared topics that we felt God wanted us to share and now we are studying the Beth Moore study of Esther. Beth Moore, if you do not know who she is,she is a dynamic fireball to put it mildly. She is PASSIONATE, shall we say. My mom watched a short part of the introductory session and in her words, "Boy, can she preach!" I guess that is the Baptist part mom was seeing. Did I mention Beth Moore can get fired up? Well, with the estrogen already present in a ladies' Bible study and the book of Esther too, we are in for a hormonally charged fall season. We're goin' have fun!!