Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

I led Sunday school today. We are basing our Sunday school lessons on the book The Christian Atheist by Craig Groeschel. Each chapter is about an issue that Christians deal with and ways in which we often act like there is no God, though we say that we believe in and follow Him. This week addressed shame, and I was a bit nervous about it, but the Lord was good and it went well. I enjoy leading, and we had really good conversation. I try to leave it very open and let people participate and the conversation go where it will. (Within reason, of course.) I always include scripture study, so we looked mainly at Psalm 51, which is David's repentance psalm after the Bathsheba incident. I will be leading Sunday school for at least the next 2 weeks, as the regular leader is attending a different study with his wife. I'm glad to give them the opportunity to have Sunday school together. I'm a bit self conscious leading a coed study as a woman, but no one really seems to mind. I have been a big proponent of peer leadership, and if I want it to be done, I should be willing to participate.

School is going well so far. I have a lot to do. I need to accomplish some things this afternoon. Finish a cover letter and start some other stuff. I am installing an exhibit of political and propaganda puzzles tomorrow morning, and I need to go to the Lilly and really work on my project/exhibit for my manuscripts class.

I had a wonderful evening yesterday, as I went to the university cinema and watched Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. I like Fort Apache better, though Henry Fonda's character drove me crazy. It is kind of based on the story of Custer, or at least very similar to Custer's stupidity, which is frustrating. I do not like or revere Custer. He was stupid and got all his men killed because of it. Fort Apache has a wonderful cast though, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Ward Bond, and a grown up Shirley Temple. I have decided that some of John Wayne's best movies are when he is alongside or opposite other very excellent actors/actresses. Thus the goodness of Rooster Cogburn and all the movies in which he played opposite Maureen O'Hara.

Today has gone very well so far, and I hope to do some homework, go to the Dave Ramsey session, and then work out after that.

TTFN