Wasn’t it fun to hang out with Emily last week on Periscope and hear her heart behind the first section of Simply Tuesday? We know there was a technical glitch with the broadcast that stopped it for many of you around 8 minutes, but hopefully you were able to catch the full replay on Thursday on this post!
We wanted to make sure you were all invited to enter our group book study giveaway as well — simply get together with 5 or more friends and take a photo with your copies of Simply Tuesday. Email it to incourage@dayspring.com by 10/15/15 and one small group will win a free 30 minute Skype chat with Emily at the end of our study!
Read
Today we’re going to be chatting with Emily about Part 2: Embracing Our Tuesday Work (chapters 4-6). If you’ve already read that section, woohoo! If you’ve just received your book and haven’t had a chance to get started, don’t worry! You can jump in at any time and join us — plus, hanging out with us live on Periscope is open to everyone!
Chat Live
Be sure to follow (in)courage AND Emily on Periscope (just click the links for both names and you’ll be able to get all the info you need to download the free app if you don’t have it yet) and join us TODAY for a free live chat!
Here’s how it will work:
- At noon EST (in)courage will go live to chat, give you an extra fun giveaway announcement, etc. When our broadcast ends, you’ll jump over to watch Emily! If you’re following both of us, Periscope will tell you as soon as Emily is live!
- At 12:05 EST Emily will go live to discuss “Embracing Our Tuesday Work” and will answer some of YOUR questions! If you have something you’d like to ask the author, simply leave your question in the comments here on this blog post.
Discuss
Q1. At the end of chapter 4, Emily writes: “I’m thankful we have a God who sometimes chooses to tell His big story in small, delightful, quiet ways.” What are some small ways you’ve seen God’s story at work in your life recently?
Q2. On page 105, Emily asks this question: “What if your big break is really a break from big?” What does that look like for you, and how does that question alter your idea of personal success?
Q3. Share something you highlighted as you read through (or your own celebrity sighting story!) — we love hearing what you’re loving!
Continue the conversation over in our Facebook group!
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We’ll see you here Thursday, where you’ll be able to watch the replay of today’s live chat with Emily! Happy Tuesday, friends!
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Q1. One of the quiet ways that I’ve seen God at work in my life is through the online friendships I’ve formed through my blog and leading online Bible studies. I started blogging after having a miscarriage, and God has really shown me how to see the beauty in the everyday ordinary through reading the stories of other women online.
Q2. After 17 plus years of teaching and working with students, I am mostly at at desk job these days. I am measuring my success in a different way now that I am not actively engaging with others face to face all day long. I’m also coming to understand that God is more interested in the state of my heart than he is in what I am “doing.”
Q3. I loved this at the end of Chapter 6: “Daily, I’m given the opportunity to recognize the gift of obscurity, trusting that Christ is doing invisible kingdom work in the stairwells of everyday life.”
Beautiful, Lyli. Thank you for sharing your stories here, with us, and with people in your life. I too started really pouring my heart into blogging after my first miscarriage and found real, true, community online. And that last line – ‘the stairwells of everyday life’ – well, that one will stick with me deep.
Grateful you’re here!
1. God works in my life through the voice of others. Sometimes, even people I don’t know personally, people who have *no* idea my current struggle, God not only will place a message that speaks truth right to my core, but He positions me to hear it. That’s amazing!
2. We broke from big earlier this year. Best thing we ever did! We moved over 400mi from “home”, but since God has been forming a small ministry in our hearts, and we have been able to help Veterans and their caregivers. We have no desire for stages, but the things that go on in the stairwells take my breath away. God is so good!
3. ” I don’t see Jesus calling me to excellence. I do see him calling me to himself.” (p 51)
You are right – it IS amazing!! Love your heart in the stairwell, Jacquelyne. Thanks for being a part of the book club this month.