Finding Your Place in God's World: spring retreat session 4

At the end of April I spoke at our Presbytery women's spring retreat on finding our purpose. In the first session we saw that God has revealed our purpose in the Scriptures. In the second and third sessions we fit the lenses of Scripture to our eyes, seeing that God has called and equipped us to be kingdom-building helpers through our everyday work.

In the fourth session, we looked at our biblical role model, the woman of Proverbs 31. We found that she is not some superwoman meant to make us feel guilty, but a literary device meant to show us how to apply the virtues of Proverbs. Proverbs 31 is not a snapshot of "a day in the life" of any particular woman but a timeline, a lifetime perspective on how we might use our gifts and graces in our homes, churches, and communities. Each of us has gifts and graces for the kingdom, and we find them "where our passions meet the world's needs" (Sally Helgesen, Everyday Revolutionaries).

To listen to the audio, follow the link below.

http://www.windgap.com/PresWIC/2011/4-FindingYourPlaceInGodsWorld.mp3

Listening to the sessions:You can download each of these files to your computer, and store them on your hard drive, or copy them to an MP3 player so that you can listen to them on your car stereo. If you're a Windows user, right-click on the file link, and save the file locally.These are big files--so downloading may take a few minutes. If you'd rather, you can "stream" the files by listening to them with Windows Media Player, WinAmp, or another audio player. Each audio player allows you to load a URL (in Windows Media Player, for example, choose "Open URL..." from the "File" menu; in WinAmp, open the Playlist Editor, and choose "Add URL" from the File menu). Just copy the URL from your web browser, open your audio application, and paste the entire URL into the appropriate dialog.

If you would like a copy of the session notes, email me at mrmurdoch@windgap.com.