"This is going to take me awhile!"

I started on Monday and only just now finished chapter 3 in the book Twelve Extraordinary Women.  This isn't looking so well for me..."sitting and staring at the computer all day"...to view it from the kiddos' perspective.  Oh well.  I'm still deciding if I'd rather have a book in my hand...more mobile and not so heavy.  Ted had obtained some software to help him in his Bible studies and loaded it into my computer too.  What a neat tool!  Just by moving my cursor, I have so many study helps as I read my Bible.  I am amazed how many books, commentaries, dictionaries, maps, and etc. are available through this.  Technology is a wonderful thing to be able to use.  Ted kept sharing different things from his studying and reading.  His latest read has been Twelve Ordinary Men.  He also came across several different books he thought might be helpful and that I might enjoy reading.  He was right and he was kind enough to share! 

So I finished another book I was reading and learned how to navigate his "computer library".

With the software came the ability to print out the workbook that accompanies this book...oh my!  I finally decided to just read the book first and go back and do the workbook because I am so intrigued with digging deeper into the lives of these women.  So far...Eve, Sarah, and Rahab.

I know about these women and their role in the Biblical record...but just focusing on some specifics about them has been a blessing.  Each of them is more than just a character in a Bible story!  So often that is where we stop in our understanding of the who, what, why, where, when, and how of God's recorded words.  He gave us His words so we could know Him.  These were real women who lived in real places with real problems.  God used them in real ways to accomplish His purpose in His plan for mankind!

My heart is being stirred as I look a little bit closer at these ordinary women...

and the "memorable, life-changing encounters they had with the God of this universe".

What can and what will He do with me?

Romans 8:28-29

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.