For Crying Out Loud

If I understand our text for this week correctly, Esther's "beauty treatments" may have involved "chemical peels." I'm thinking we could all look as good as a beauty queen if we got that kind of expensive pampering! :D

Have any of you had a "chemical peel?" I never have, but according to Beth, they really hurt. Please comment and let us know if you've had one and whether you recommend it or not.

Also, what I want to know is this: "If Esther was a teenager at this time, why in the world would she need "chemical peels?" I thought those kinds of things were for those of us who are aging and needed a layer of skin taken off!

Could someone please enlighten me???????????

Pamper Yourself....

Since we have been talking about beauty treatments in our homework, we are going to have a little pampering session of our own this Wednesday night. Come early and enjoy a neck/shoulder/back massage, a foot massage in the "bone crusher" (if your man enough! LOL) and an instant hand manicure with my secret salt solution from the Dead Sea. Honestly, it makes your hands soooooo soft - you've just got to try it. Anyway, come early and eat with us and have a beauty treatment....you're worth it, so pamper yourself!

Women's Retreat Video

Ladies,
If you want to watch a video that Sue put together from the Retreat, just go to the website below. It's cool.....thanks, Sue!

http://www.onetruemedia.com/my_shared?z=2fb5e4f323996d4c9d9ad3&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

What do you think God thinks....

As you read your Bible, are there times when you wonder how God reacted to different situations? What did God think of a king that forced boys into becoming "eunuchs"? What did God think of a king that forced girls, like cattle, into parading around for him and doing whatever he wanted (including sleeping with him). On page 38 of your homework, Beth asked us if we could think of an example of something in the Bible that made us wonder what God was thinking? Can you think of an example when you felt like God should have stopped an injustice or an immorality? Please post your example in the comments below.

What was your favorite part?

Ladies,
For those of you who went on the Women's Retreat, what was your favorite part? Post your answers in the comments below.
Thanks,
Janet
P.S.....If I had to sum up the retreat in one word it would be: WOOHOO!!!

Your Input

Okay, ladies, have you done your first day of homework, yet? I would like your insights. What is your favorite line from the first day of homework?

Here's mine:

"As you and I spend the next 9 weeks with Him in the pages of Esther's story, God will write something new and unexpected of our own into His."

I'm so excited to see what God has in store for me to learn/experience and how he wants me to grow in the next 9 or 10 weeks. I once heard someone say that you don't stay stagnant in the Christian faith; you are either growing or declining. Let it be said of all of us that we are GROWING!

Your turn. What's your favorite line from this week's homework? Do tell!!

IT'S ALMOST TIME.........

...........FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS!

Ladies,
The countdown is on! Only 27 more hours until ESTHER starts.....Woohoo!!!

Here are the details:

Starting Wednesday evening, Jan. 14, at 6:30pm.
Child-care is available.
Food is provided - come a little earlier than 6:30 and eat with us.....we will have soup this Wednesday night because, BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!!!
10-week study
$15.00 for workbook

Let me know if you have any questions......looking forward to seeing you tomorrow night!!

Love,
Janet

P.S....Post your comment to the following question: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being HUGE, how haunted are you by the pictures of physical perfection that loom nearby us all the time?

Dear Princess~

Yes, I'm talking to you! We have all been so blessed by Him. Check out First Peter 2:9. Get your Bible out and read it!

According to I Peter 2:9 and several other verses, we who belong to Christ, are royalty! I've been working through the "Esther" Bible study work book and I've been enchanted with the discoveries I'm making. Check out this quote from Beth's work book, page 97:

"Beloved, absorb this with your whole heart. You are royalty. Not figurative royalty. Not just spiritual royalty. You are in the most literal sense possible the daughter of the universe's King. You have royal blood in a way that even Esther did not. The crimson blood line of Christ flows through your veins."

If that doesn't make your tiara sparkle, I don't know what would. I've been trying to carry myself a little more "regally" ever since absorbing this thought. We receive a royal heritage when we trust Christ as our Savior. Let's live accordingly!!

ESTHER IS COMING!

Ladies,
We are only 9 days away from the start of ESTHER (Wed. Jan. 14 at 6:30). Can you believe it? Wait until you get into this study.....you're going to L.O.V.E. it!

Here are a few things Beth has to say in this study:

"It's tough being a woman in another woman's shadow."

"It's tough being a woman in a world where beauty is a treatment."

"It's tough being a woman in a mean world."

What about you? How would you fill in the following blank:

"It's tough being a woman ____________________"

Please post your comment below!

See you soon!!!

Love,
Janet