Writing Opportunity

OK, so all my previous posts have been writings that had been sitting around for a while. I have been rewriting and editing the roughs I scratched out and have been slowly posting them. A month or so ago, I met with my pastor's wife about the desire to develop my writing and teaching talents. I asked her to mentor me into a leadership position fully expecting her to say, "Let's first start by setting up some chairs" or other small ministry. What she actually said was, "You don't need to be mentored, we just need to start your own ministry and you can learn as you go."

After I picked myself off the floor, I was equally excited and nauseous at the same time. After a year praying about what God wanted me to do with these talents, I didn't know if I was ready to just jump right in. Well, I had opened the door and ask God to reveal what he wanted me to do and He did, so I kept going. We discussed the different needs of the church, created a survey at a women's event and prayed about God's leading.

Over the next couple of weeks, God confirmed the same theme in conversations with friends, family, leadership and random people. Everyone was saying the same thing....people need help with emotional struggles. This is interesting because that has been the running theme of my personal and spiritual growth. Once we made the decision, the words started flowing. It is awesome to see God providing direction and bringing the right words together.

So, starting the first of October I will be teaching a class I call "Pathways to Emotional Wholeness." (if you have a better name, I would be happy to consider it). So for a while, I will be busily researching and writing the material for the class instead of posting. There are many of you who may be interested in either the topic or what God is doing with my writing. Starting in October, I will be posting my materials. If you want, you could follow along with the class and even complete the weekly homework.

I hope you will consider joining the class online and thank you all for reading my blogs so far. I find it awesome how God answers prayer as soon as we decide to get moving in the right direction.

Here are the topics for each week:

1. Week One - Past Things First: A Biblical Perspective on Counseling
2. Week Two - The Mind Body Connection: How your thoughts affect your emotions and how your emotions affect your body
3. Week Three - Boundaries: Drawing appropriate emotional lines
4. Week Four - “Know Thyself”: Understanding who you were created to be
5. Week Five - Our Heavenly Parent: Understanding emotions, sin and God’s Discipline
6. Week Six - The Road to the Wound: Healing Trauma with Truth
7. Week Seven - This Present Darkness: Preparing for the battle around us
8. Week Eight - Fighting the good fight: Using our tools and the attributes of emotional health

I hope to see you here!

Farah