Submission!!!!

This Sunday for Engage we started things off by playing a game. We each wrote something we were afraid of on a piece of paper and tossed it into the middle of the table. Then each of us selected a paper at random and related how that can be scary for us too--without knowing who's paper we had. Our fears included everything from fear of failure to fear of not having any real friends.

For Inform: In my own experience, submission comes only through trust. Fear is not necessarily removed, trust just allows us to get past our fears and let go. (Not that we turn our brains off, as Nathan mentioned in the list of all the things submission is not.) We talked about how it's hard to submit to our parents when we feel like they don't understand us. This is where trust comes in too. Because our husbands will understand in some ways less than our parents. But we are first responsible to God, who knows what we need more than we do.

For Application we said that we need to start practicing being respectful to teachers, parents, anyone in authority; regardless of whether we agree. I talked about how I didn't agree with my parents that going to a dance with my friends was morally wrong. But my parents did; which would make it morally wrong for me to go. So just because we may not think something is wrong, if our parents tell us we can't do it, we are not submitting to them or to God if we do it anyway. (Unless of course, they are telling us we can't obey God).

Ladies, I will be praying for you that we will continue to practice this skill with patience.

'Love ya'll
Virginia