What Am I Doing Here?

Brenda Schors and Me In 2008

Women's ministries have been my passion for many years. Some of the most joyful times of my life have been spent studying the Bible and praying with other women.

It must have been in the 1970s when the first few women came to our home and began a weekly prayer group that continued for many years, meeting from house to house. After awhile, our meetings were almost always held at Greg and Brenda Schors' home in Machias. At the time, Greg was pastoring in Cutler and Wayne was pastor at Holmes Bay Baptist in Machiasport.

Most weeks I shared a devotional and facilitated a conversation around the Word of God, but from time to time we had missionaries and other visitors to local Churches come and share with us. Most of our time was devoted to prayer.

In those early years, I used to think of the instructions in Titus 2 for older women. "Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled."

I used to think, "when I get old, I want to BE a Titus 2 woman". I prayed for compassion and wisdom, thinking that if I should be a Titus 2 woman as I aged then I needed to be the YOUNG woman that God created me to be. What I didn't realize is that the years would pass so quickly and I would hit my 60s and 70s with a great deal left to learn. I also didn't realize that some of my very best mentoring was to be from people much younger than I -- some of them my very own children.

So what am I doing here? Just this: blogging from time to time to anyone who is interested in reading it. I will just be sharing what God is teaching me, praying that readers will be encouraged to love the Lord more and more.