Rough Morning

Well, yesterday was the first Heart to Heart meeting at church. I was so nervous that when I woke up at 5:45 am with my poor nose running like crazy (is it just me or are seaseonal allergens WAY worse this year?) I couldn't get back to sleep. I had my nervous stomach all morning. So I sat down with my class of woman in our first study at 10:30 a.m. Since none of the girls had read the book yet, the morning was really just to get an introduction to the book and to get to know eachother a little better. By 10:50 we had gone through everything that I had prepared for the morning. Oops :( I was feeling like a schoolgirl again, standing in front of the class making a speech. Remember that feeling? The nervous stomach, sweaty hands, stammering speach etc. That's one of the things I feel the most self-conscious about is how I mess up when I'm trying to speak. It's so embarassing when you mix up your words, or lose your train of thought mid-sentence. I'm hoping that the next 8 weeks will be much better once the girls are doing the readings and we have more to discuss. The book is amazing so it should generate lots of discussion.

Two dear friends of mine that are in the class were kind enough to send me encouraging e-mails about how well they thought it went. It helped that many of the women in my class have taught as well and they voiced that they shared similar feelings to me when they started.

Ironically, one of my friends e-mailed me last night to tell me that Max Lucado (the author of the book), is being interviewd on 100 Huntley Street all week about the book we're studying. I'm taping all the interviews now and hoping there may be some new info in there we could look at in our group. The thing that gets me is that it would have been PERFECT to have a snipit of video to show yesterday morning at the intro class. It'll still be a great thing to watch (even if I just watch it myself), but I wish I'd had it 12 hours sooner.

Well, Lyric is squirming on my lap so I should get going. The picture for today really isn't relevant to the topic, but I loved it. I took it at MacGregor a few weeks ago.

Mel