T&D meet in the garden

Tom and I had our first Bible study last night - our first T&D Bible study. We left an over-sized Sunday "small group" way out on the other side of town a while ago to join a smaller one that met at our church. But unfortunately, because of one thing and another, that small small-group disbanded, or shrunk to oblivion. With no obvious place to go Tom and I decided to start our own smallest group, just the two of us.

Tom and I chose our church because it is home and we knew it right away. God guided us there and we've never had the slightest reason to think we belonged anywhere else. But, it's a Presbyterian church and we're not Presbyterians - we're just Christians. And it turns out Presbyterians are pretty serious about studying the Bible and Tom and I are a little behind.

For years we didn't go to church. We both had difficult adolescences and the freedom of life after high school proved to be a stumbling block for both of us. We went through some very dark times I can't even imagine now.

I never found a church that spoke to where I was as a Christian and I never tried very hard when I tried at all. And I didn't read my Bible unless I was desperate and some times I was desperate and didn't read my Bible and sometimes, of course, I doubted it's truth.

God brought me to this church, and then God gave me Tom to keep, and brought Tom to this church and we are encouraged and inspired by our brilliant brothers and sisters, and our faithful brothers and sisters, to know God's word better than we know each line of the Flight of the Concords.

So for the interim, especially in a time when Tom and I don't get enough time together and enough time together with God, we are studying the Bible Sunday nights. Starting at the very beginning so we don't leave anything out; our multiple versions spread out in front of us, a pad of paper and pencil near by to write our million questions for our pastor, Kyle.

I want to bring children into our life knowing I can guide them by the Truth of God's word. And I am so glad to be with Tom, on the same page.