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Month 1: Food – Guest Post & Link Up
Month 2: Clothes – Guest Post – Link Up
Month 3: Possessions – Guest Post – Link Up
Month 4: Media – Guest Post – Link Up
Month 5: Waste – Guest Post – Link Up
Month 6: Spending — Guest Post— Link Up
During month seven, Jen takes time to pause and pray 7 times each day. She talks about how difficult this month was for her below:
I found this month very challenging and equally beautiful. Evidently, I don’t respond well to interruptions, Spirit-led or otherwise.
But these pauses, plus the Sabbath, plus the sabbatical taught me something: My heart craves a slower life. I want people to stop prefacing their phone calls with this: “I know you’re so busy, but if I could just have a second…” I want to figure out what this means for our family. We can’t live in the barn forever, nor can we pull out of work, ministry, school, community, mission, family, and all the activities that accompany them. But what can we do to cultivate a quiet ranch heart in a noisy urban world?
Watch:
7 – Month 7: Stress, Bloom (in)courage Book Club by Bloom (in)courage from Bloom (in)courage on Vimeo.
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Discuss:
Do you find yourself so caught up in the stress of your life that you forget to cover it in prayer?
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Join us this Wednesday as Crystal from Money Saving Mom shares a guest post on how this chapter on Stress affected her life. And if you’ve also shared about this month’s topic on your blog, won’t you link up with us on Friday or share in the comments? We’d love to hear from you!
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September 2012 was a super busy month for me.
Work got extra busy with college starting up again, work at the Student Health Clinic. Add to that our Women’s Bible Study started mid month, family issues.
Found out my dad has malignant melanoma–fortunately it is healing. Also discovered, or think I have, that he has a bit of depression. Mother-in-law had complete knee replacement last week and BP bottomed out. Fortunately she is up and walking. Going to rehab facility today.
Just felt like I’m on a merry-go-round and I want off & some peace & quiet. I try to pray daily–several times. Hubby and I do a devotion each night.
Quiet time with God is awesome–also listening to some quiet praise & worship music does wonders for me!
Love the story about Corrie Ten Boom and fleas. A reminder I needed to hear today: to thank God for even the hard things…
The primary way this study has affected me is by really challenging me to make sabbath happen. Now, every Sunday, we are finally getting off of our technology and resting. Truly resting! It’s wonderful!
This book study has been great. I was one of the people that was surprised to see that the Stress chapter was about praying 7 times a day instead of taking away scheduled items. And at first I thought that maybe adding prayer 7 times a day was adding MORE stress! LOL. But I see the beauty of this chapter and that if we put God first in our life, the rest of the chaos in life will fall into place. God is our center and everything else lines up after that.
Thanks again. This was a fantastic book choice.
Nicole
I am amazed how this book has changed my perspective on many areas in my life. Chapter 7-Stress was a welcomed chapter in my life, at this point. Even if I don’t stop to pray 7 times a day, I have noticed that I’m praying more, and I’m more intentional with what fills my quiet time. I’m also focusing on what fills our time, as a family. “Everyone is busy,” or so they say, but we create that in our lives. I keep asking myself, “Is too much being demanded of my time outside my control, or am I putting those demands on myself?”
I just want to say thanks to Jessica & Angie for taking the time and effort to select such great books and for spending the time making the videos for the Bloom book club. I just read 7 during the past two weeks and watched all of the videos over the past two days. 7 is a book I wasn’t sold on at first so waited til I could get it through the library but I so enjoyed reading it! Jen Hatmaker has the greatest sense of humour and there certainly are fabulous takeaway messages!
I’m a little surprised that there aren’t many comments on this particular Bloom book study but perhaps there are others like me who can’t take part of the book study in real time but enjoy catching up on it later. So keep up the good work ladies! I look forward to seeing what else you will recommend and watching future videos 🙂
This Seven revolutionized my life! I’m still linked to it like glue. By my Bible and in my discussions. Since the InCourage conference I organized a group in my house. I haven’t been able to share the conference because my group is not very much involved with tech. I’m working little by little and we are organizing a Seven Project for the next months. Love!