From the Pit ...

Okay, if you didn't read my post from yesterday, go do that first, 'cause this follows it.

Okay, are you back? Good thing I didn't go on without you, huh?

I went looking for Beth Moore Bible studies the other week. I didn't find out until later that the studies are only sold through certain sites, but I found some of her books. There's one called "Get Out of that Pit" which sounded right up my alley.

So I ordered it but hadn't started reading it.

Until yesterday after I posted.

She starts by talking about what it's like to be in a pit. Made me bawl. Not a pretty sight. But I think that's what I was trying to describe, I've been in a pit. I'm in a pit.

With a name like muckfootmom, I guess that shouldn't surprise me!

And the best news? I don't have to stay in it and just try to make the best of it. I don't have to just tread water.

Or so she claims.

Half of me is wildly hopeful. Because this book really smacked with that "this is what you have been looking for" feeling. And it's not some magic method from man, from what I've read her books are soundly grounded in the Word. Her enthusiastic writing really points to the Lord, not something Beth Moore invented. So that's good. Exciting. Because I know at the root, that's where the answers are.

But half of me is reserved and afraid to get my hopes up. I think I've been in this pit a long time. I'm afraid I won't 'do it right' - whatever it is - to get out.

I'm not a long way into it, just a few chapters. Not to the "getting out" part.

So you'll have to stay tuned.

In the meantime, I'm pondering whether I need to figure out why/how I came to be in this pit. Some people have clear 'falling in' or 'jumping in' or 'pushed in' incidences. Oh, sure, I have some slips and some jumps and even maybe some pushes. But does which of those is most key matter? Should I try to pore over my past, my choices, my thinking? Or can I just climb out without too much dredging up and introspection?

Well, ramble ramble ... stay tuned. :-)

Oh, and I mean that in an 'over the next few days/weeks' sense, that is. You know me, if I stay awake to read one chapter that'll be a miracle. Don't stay tuned glued to your computers TODAY. I don't think that fast.

LOL.