My Dear Siestas, it has been way too long! I’m sitting here in my gown in my very own bed with pillows behind my back and Star lying across my feet. (She has no intention of taking her eyes off me today. The last time she looked away, I disappeared for 5 days.) I’ve already had prayer time and two cups of coffee. About to start on my 3rd.
So much has happened this week that has deeply impacted me but nothing, you might imagine, more than Melissa’s post. I sat in an exhausted heap at a long layover at an airport yesterday and read and read and read the blog and your comments. It was everything I could do not to roll in the floor. It was so much more than I deserved but a spring to a weary soul. I love my girls so much. I don’t just love them. I respect them. Like so many of you, they are such fine and gifted young women. God has given Keith and me no greater proof of His grace and redemption on our sinful, former pit-dwelling lives than our two daughters. Both of them are a little undone that they won’t be home for Mother’s Day this year (btw, look for a Mother’s Day post tomorrow – I think God has given me kind of a neat idea) but I have told them over and over (and meant it) that I am among the most blessed moms on earth who hear every single day from their children that they are loved. We are a very close family and they are my favorite people – wise and impossibly witty – on earth. Thank you for allowing us a little room to be family on this blog.
Many years ago I heard someone say (don’t even remember who anymore) that “no amount of success in ministry can make up for failure at home.” And I wrote that in the very front of my Bible and have it engraved upon my brain. Family life is tough. It’s never all clean and tidy because it is lived wholly without cover. We Moores, Jones’s and Fitzpatricks are not without bruises and scars from all-things-family but to know each other intimately and still respect each other is a profound gift of God we do not take lightly. I say again and again to you in hopes that you will be encouraged to hang in there, our family is a miracle and He can perform that same miracle in your home.
And now, for just a few other highlights – written in long hand, of course – from a very exciting week in Washington, DC. Because you’re my dear Siestas, I’m giving you the personal goods:
*Being told by a darling young woman that I mentor that, in her intercession for me, she’d never prayed so many patriotic prayers in her life and, at the end of a very intense time of prayer (by herself) for our national leaders, NDP, and those of us serving in the observance, she didn’t know any other way to close it. So she put her hand over her heart and said the Pledge of Allegiance. I laughed so hard I cried. I thought of it so many times during the week. But then when we said the Pledge together in the Cannon House at the actual observance, surrounded by these difficult days in our country and mounting persecution against the belief system upon which it was founded, my lip quivered so hard I could hardly get the words out of my mouth.
*Spending the week with Travis and Angela Cottrell. I’ve told you before how much we love these ministry partners of ours. These two unlikely couples have been on a wild ride with Jesus together for eleven solid years. We can almost read each other’s minds at this point. We pray for one another, serve together, and laugh until we cry together. Honestly, we laugh so hard sometimes we throw ourselves into muscle spasms. And Keith and Travis tease each other unmercifully and wrestle and punch each other, for crying out loud, like they are nine year-olds. If I snapped my fingers and said, “Stop it!” one time to the two of them this week, I said it a hundred times. Lord, have mercy. Then Travis gets up there and sings and I think, honestly, that he is the most gifted man I may know. Mystifying.
*Touring Mount Vernon. I’m not kidding. It was THE most interesting thing!! I’ve been to D.C. many times but I’ve never been able to take the time to go on the tour of George and Martha’s homestead spread. It is the coolest thing ever. The grounds are gorgeous and the house so entirely telling of what their lives were like. (Did you know he had step-children and no natural heirs? Did you know he and Martha raised their young grandchildren after the deaths of their own children? And did you know they had overnight guests several hundred days a year??) Michelle Parrozzo, my new assistant (Amanda’s age and a long time friend of Amanda’s), worked in D.C. for 6 years (in the Whitehouse, Pentagon, etc.) and, through her long list of connections, she was able to get the Cottrells and us (and her and her good friend, Lauren) a private tour. Mr. John Marshall was our Mt Vernon expert-guide and I learned later that he had the opportunity to personally tour actor David Morse as he prepared for the role of George Washington in the superior HBO miniseries, John Adams.) We history nuts were completely bug-eyed. I learned later that evening that they used to display George Washington’s Bible in the exhibit but it has been removed in light of all the secularization of recent years. (It’s a privately owned park so it’s not a government thing.) I found that flabbergasting.
*Having dinner with Caroline and Karen. The evening of the tour, we had an NDP dinner right there at the Mt Vernon facilities. Keith and I had the pleasure of sitting at a table with several courageous (and fun, by the way) God-seeking congressmen and their wives. Needless to say, I soon migrated to more personal conversations with the women. They were both absolutely delightful. Karen Pence told me something that I’ve replayed in my mind over and over. She said that a while back she checked with her husband’s office staff about what they’d need to expect schedule-wise regarding this year’s National Day of Prayer. One of the staff members wrote her back with details and told her that a woman named (well, you know…that’s so awkward) would be speaking and that she’s some Bible lady. Karen said her response was, “That’s my Bible lady!” Turns out she’s done many studies with us. It was one of the most wonderful things anybody has ever said to me. I was so tired on the plane ride home that tears stung in my eyes every time I thought about it. I have loved serving you women so much. I’d be honored to be your Bible Lady any time and would marvel over the grace of God to this needy life.
Caroline was equally delightful. She was from Alabama so her accent drew me in immediately like a bee to a honeycomb. I discovered in our conversation that she and her good friend, Sharon, had developed a reputation for their pound cakes and been encouraged to go into business. Pound cakes?? Did someone say pound cakes? Outside the Word of God and a great time of worship, can anything on earth minister like a pound cake? I sat straight up in my chair. These were words worth listening to. Worth salivating over. I learned that Caroline and her buddy have developed a small business right there in their own kitchens in D.C. and, since they’re both proper Southern women, they named it “Two Belles.” I assured her I would place an order the moment I got home and it was all I could think about that night. The very next night at the next NPD gathering, lo and behold, Congressman Aderholt delivered me two pound cakes, compliments of his beautiful wife. One was called “The Annemarie” (cream cheese!) and the other “The Miss Becca” (chocolate!). (They offer seven flavors and each is named for a woman who inspired the recipe.) Keith and I tore into those things with violence the moment we got to our rooms. Girlfriend, girlfriend, girlfriend. THE POUND CAKES OF MY LIFE. Honestly, we brought those babies home on the plane and I ate pound cake for breakfast just a few minute ago.
*Meeting honest-to-goodness present-day Esthers like Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen and Congresswoman Michelle Bachman from Minnesota. They LOVE Jesus and serve Him and the people He’s entrusted to them with utmost integrity and with a strong swim against the current. And don’t forget that God used Vonette Bright and Shirley Dobson to found and direct the annual observance of the National Day of Prayer and each has served several presidents of the United States. It really is awe-inspiring. (Y’all know me better than to think I’m on a feminist binge here. Woman to woman, I’m just telling you about some hard-working Esthers on our planet right this minute.)
*The Thursday observance itself at the Cannon Building. Profound. Surreal. Everything about it but here are a few things that especially moved me: the Joint Armed Services Color Guard marching in with the “Presentation of Colors” at the very beginning. My heart was pounding like a drum; the Ambassador of Zambia praying for our country in her wonderful thick African accent. I thought my soul would jump out of my skin; the official and personal message of General James F. Amos, USMC to us. He was so impressive. Everything you’d want a General to be. And he loves Jesus. His testimony took us straight to the battlefield and exploded our appreciation for our troops like fireworks on the fourth of July. Keith and I have talked about it many times since Thursday.
*Our NDP chapel at the Pentagon. Keith and I got to go alongside Dr. Ravi Zacharias and his wife, Margie, when they served in this position last year and we were both greatly moved by the people at the Pentagon observance. To be there this year was beyond what we could have imagined. Whatever you may be picturing, they were the furthest thing from stiff and formal. Very, very warm gathering. Sweet time of praise and worship. Many in uniform. Others right beside them who labor in administrative and support roles every day of the week. I share this with you to boast in Christ alone – goodness knows it was only grace – and because I know you won’t take it any other way than a sister sharing a highlight: they presented me and Lillie Knauls (who sang in the observance) American flags that had hung over the Pentagon. It was baffling. I would have given anything on earth for my dad, retired Army Major Albert B. Green, to have been there with me. Keith and I remarked later that he would have been right there beside us…and insistent on wearing his uniform, no less, whether or not we thought that was the best idea. Incidentally, he was buried in it. And rightly so. He bore a scar on his cheek where he took a bullet right in the face protecting democracy.
*Immediately flying out of D.C. in a bouncing prop plane in cloudy weather with the Cottrells and our good friends, Herb and Dona Fisher, to one of the largest NDP observances in the nation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We would be on the platform there in only a few hours. I cannot tell you what it was like to go from the very (appropriately) intense atmosphere of our nation’s Capitol into an open air, outdoor praise and prayer celebration for NDP in Pennsylvania. Both were so memorable and so distinct. Approximately 18,000 people gathered on those green grounds on the most beautiful afternoon and evening you could possibly imagine on the tail winds of an Eastern storm. Dona is the chairperson for that NDP event that she began under God’s leadership eleven years ago with 350 people. Oh, what God can do through a willing soul with vision! Through the years it grew into 10,000+. The gathering of diverse people (a number of Mennonites) from every conceivable background and denomination for corporate prayer on behalf of our nation was simply amazing. Dona chose children and high school students to lead the prayers this year and it was the sweetest, most convicting thing ever.
Well, OK. Enough is enough. But you prayed so hard for us, I could not even consider pitching you a few dry leftover bones. You mean more to me than that. I wanted you to taste the event like a piece of Southern fried chicken. Or maybe like a pound cake. You can have cream cheese or chocolate. I’m going to go cut us both a piece and pour me another cup of coffee. I wish so much I didn’t have to eat your part.
Siestas, I love you like crazy. Thank you for welcoming my family and me into your lives. Our deepest desire is to serve Jesus Christ. He is IT.
You’re my Bible Lady too! My best friend Rebecca lives in PA and I in Maine…friends since preschool…and 30+ yrs. later, friends till the end. She called me last night, tore up and broken for her 6 yr. old son who is suffering from fear and anxiety and torment. A little man raised in a loving Christian home. Rebecca and I have talked about coming to Houston in January for the Siesta Scripture gathering. When she called last night she wanted to hop on a plane right then. We talk about your love, Beth, for us “Siestas”, that you’ve never met, but we love you back and thank you for loving Jesus above all else.
We just took our kiddos to Wash. DC at the beg. of April. It was so beautiful and so neat to see how our forefathers thought God was “it” too! Did you see George’s gravesite and the things written on the memorials? Soooo cool. Glad you are home safely! Happy Mother’s Day, Beth!
Your description of NDP brought back memories! The first time I saw someone raise their hands in worship was at a NDP celebration in Durango, Co. I thought to myself, “Is it raining up there or what?” Oh, my goodness. I had no idea how Jesus would grab my heart and teach me to raise my hands and rejoice! God’s word is powerful. Happy mother’s day to all.
Eleanor
North Palm Beach, Fl
Oh, Bible Lady, thank you for giving us a front row seat to NDP. It was wonderful to read about all the events and your reactions to them. Thanks too for the pound cake…it and cheesecake are my favorites!
Pam Eubank
Brandon, Florida
Happy Mother’s Day Beth, Amanda and Siestas!
Thank you for sharing Beth! Now, have to find that pound cake web site and order . . .
Beth,
Thank you for eating my piece of Pound Cake. I’m trying so hard to lose weight. Only another Siesta would do that for me!
Thank you for being my Bible Lady with a group of ladies in the past, and for my husband and I in this current season.
Happy Mother’s Day to an adoptive Spiritual Mom.
Peace,
Kim Feth
Apex, NC
Oh, thank you for taking the time to share the sense and the feel of it!! Could have gone on reading for hours, but thank you! And thank you, Jesus, for answering our prayers for you. We wait to see Your answers to those prayers for our beloved country!!
LOve you, Beth
Karen, Stayton, OR
I’m not sure how you do it, other than GOD, but every time you write, I’ve got emotion rolling off of me. Laughter to tears.
I’m thankful that the God you serve is the God that I serve, and HE IS IT! MORE THAN ENOUGH.
Loving you like crazy,
Yolanda
PS: I can’t begin to tell you how many times I pray and ask the Lord to privde a way that I could just sit and have lunch with you. Sharing Jesus with one another. You are my Bible Lady as well.
This was so humbling, encouraging, & convicting! I did a lot of praying on my own on Thursday, but didn't feel like anything "big" was going on for NDP. Wow, was I wrong! I don't know how I totally missed out on what was happening, but I was so blessed by your sharing of it. When the sky is black (as it is now), the rain is coming. Taking my eyes off the Source of the Rain & seeing only the obvious circumstances drags me down instead of planting my feet on high places. Thank you for reminding me of Who is in charge! I still pray hard for our nation, but what an encouragement to know that there are warriors out there!
You have been my Bible lady for 10+ years and going strong! So glad to know that my state, Alabama, was represented well this week in the NDP and by Congressman Aderholt. I read that Shawn Alexander was there too and we know him to be Godly and a good man. Prayed for you and all involved.
BTW, I’m making YOUR 5 flavor pound cake for Mother’s Day lunch tomorrow.
Thanks for the details and for standing up for all of us as you represented God’s people this week in our Nation’s capital. Bless you, Beth Moore!
You my dear sister are my bible lady. You have been used by our Jesus to teach and draw me deeper into his word. Your promise of hanging in there in regard’s to family is an answer to prayer. Out daughter is not walking with our Jesus, and my man and I are heart broken. I pondered the other day as I was looking back on my devotions Jesus 90 days with the One and Only. The cry of my heart was for her to see the need to re-dedicate her life to Him. We are lifting her up constantly, and we won’t stop.
On a lighter note and so happy to let you know that we were able to bless both our Mom’s with sweet gifts from LPM. My mother in love with David devo (she is 70 plus years and just finished Esther with her bible study gals) and my momma with Get out of the Pit (audio, as she feels a bit intimidated with all the reading)
To close you are my hero as you continue to step out for Jesus and show us all how to love Him with all our hearts. God bless you and have a Beautiful Mother’s Day.
for the sake of the Name,
Celeste
Thank you, sweet Beth, for sharing with us. I was so moved by hearing about the NDP (my dad is retired from the United States Air Force) and have lifted up extra prayers for you and LPM this week. Because I had to work, I was unable to attend our NDP program, but pray daily for our country and her leaders. I also followed Melissa’s blog from India and I was so touched. Both of your daughters are very godly women and quite astute, just like their mom.
I just found out that you are going to be in Memphis in October! I’m checking the calendar at work Monday and if there is any way possible, I plan to attend with our church.
Happy early Mother’s Day, Beth. I’ll spend part of the day with my grandmother and the rest with my mom, so I’ll not see your blog until late tomorrow night.
With love to my “Bible Lady” and her entire family
Sharon
Pontotoc, MS
Thank you for the wonderful post full of sweet memories. It is absolutely breath-taking to ‘hear’ you speak of the events from this last week. Truly inspirational and geared toward the worship of God Almighty, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Blessings to you and your family. Enjoy mom’s day!
Kelli in Colorado
You are so dear to us all! Thank you for pouring out your heart… know you must be so tired! I had to read it twice to soak it all in! Loved every morsel! : )
Know you are proud of your girls! I think of them often and pray my kids will have the same heart towards the Lord and their family! I can’t tell you how much they have ministered to me through this blog… when I was their age I didn’t have a clue! Such a blessing! I pray I can be a Mom like you too!
(Yikes! I am in the thick of three teenagers and one tween… and last week when we said no to an “all night” after prom party (of course he was furious) all I could think about was your story about Melissa revving her car like she was going to leave then coming back inside… oh goodness these teen years… am I going to make it?!? )
Pray for you more than you will ever know! God Bless- Emmy
I know that I should have something more profound to say about this but all I can think to say is: I have never had pound cake. I will work on fixing this, stat.
Dearest Beth,
Have had such a heavy heart for the last few months over the almost complete secularism invading our country and culture. Honestly, have been feeling hopeless about it, and my spiritual life has been reflecting it. Was so encouraged, however, to know that my Bible Lady was one of the leaders of the NDP!
I hate to ask you for anything because I know how burdened you are with all that you do, but could you pray for me? I am struggling in my faith like never before and it feels like I don’t know how to have a relationship with God anymore. I don’t want to be one of those who walk away from the faith in the last days, but I feel so close to giving up. Not sure if it the hormones, the devil, or the flesh, but I am as dry and as cold as I’ve ever been in my walk with Jesus and I miss Him – desperately.
Thank you.
Thank you for fresh tears (and for keeping Melissa's last post…it was definitely a keeper). Happy Mother's Day, Beth. I love you so much it hurts! <3
Only our GOD can use a blog post on a computer hundreds of miles away to connect women in love…not pretend, let’s sound loving love….but LOVE! I just love you. And I know you love me. It’s just a miracle and it’s beautiful!
What an amazaing gift the Lord has given you and Keith — thanks for sharing it with us and taking us along with you.
Pam
Tennessee
Beth,
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. I have been praying for all of you as many times as the Lord brought you to my mind which was often. All of you are never far from my mind. Happy that you all made it everywhere safely! Rest up! Love ya! Joan
I will have the other halves of Patty’s pound cake. You know one half cream cheese and one half chocolate. We can’t let any of it go to waist! Oh sorry freudian slip. I mean waste. LOL
Love hearing about your travels this week. What an awesome time for you to be Chairperson of the National Day of Prayer. God is so in control! I can’t think of anyone better that I would entrust that duty to.
There is a group of us in your Study of Esther right now and you always manage to blow us away with your knowledge and insight. I know all the glory belongs to HIM but I would love to know how your brain processes everything it takes in. Amazing.
Have a wonderful Mother’s Day and to Amanda and Melissa too. (Melissa’s Compassion child counts as hers!)
Oh Beth, You have been my “Bible Lady” for many years and hopefully many more to come…if the Lord tarries. The “thank you” goes to you for sharing your family with all the Siestas. It is an honor to study with you and get to know you and your sweet daughters through this wonderful blog. Take care, sweet one, and have a blessed Mother’s Day. We love you..
Oh, girl, you had me at the mention of the pound cake! But really, every single detail is just as important and precious as the pound cake divinity! And I’m honored to call you my “Bible Lady†right alongside Ms. Karen. You have no idea how many women you’ve mentored in all these years you have been teaching and not one iota of a clue how many more generations will be impacted by all that you’ve instilled in us through the power of God’s word working in our lives. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for representing the Christian faith at the NDP and living the thing out with your life!
Much love, Amy in OK
Hi Beth!
I was so proud of my Bible lady being the honorary chairperson of this year’s National Day of Prayer! And I have been anticipating this wonderful account of the week, so thank you so much!
I am just getting back to my computer this minute, just now back from my younger (of 2) son’s college graduation, and I am so full of joy and gratitude that I could explode! Not just for his wonderful record and completion of 4 years of hard work, but for who this young man has grown to be! And I have the same feeling for my older son (and his lovely wife)! So Beth, your comments about your feelings for your daughters were so well understood. I am so grateful for the miracles and blessings that God has bestowed upon our family. I will tell you that studying God’s Word with you over the past several years has been just profound in bringing me to a place where I believe God and trust in Him for such blessings and miracles! He is mighty to save!
I ate too much during our graduation festivities, so I will pass on the poundcake. But it sounds so good!
Love you girl!
Fran
Gulf Shores, AL
Hmmm…brings to mind one of my favorite Martin Luther quotes: “I’d rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian.”
Amen and amen.
Beth I find it almost ironic that this wonderful country of ours that was founded on Godly precepts has forked so far from the beginning path. To think George Washington the “Father of our Country” reading the Bible, praying for this nation and now the very Bible not even displayed.Sad, truly sad, but I stand on the promis that God will heal this nation somehow, maybe through the prayers of this week that will happen. It is encouraging to know that there are people in the political realm that do trust in God and they too want our nation to heal. Thanks for serving our nation this week.
Dear Beth – You have no idea how much your Bible Studies and blog nuture me. Often, when I read your personal sharing about your family, it reinforces the deep love I have for my hubby and our two beautiful daughters, 2 wonderful son-in-laws and four fantastic grandchildren. I feel the deep love your family has for each other because that is exactly how it is for our family. God is so good, so good to me!
Prayerfully,
Nancy
Stockbridge,Georgia
Beth,
You are being used by God in a BIG way in my own life and in the lives of the Bible study women in my church. I have been through each of your studies and because of these studies, I have grown hungrier and hungrier for God’s Word. I am one of the siestas memorizing Scripture and God willing, I will be joining you, Amanda, Melissa and all the other “memorizing” Siestas in January at your church.
And isn’t chocolate one of the main food groups??!!
Blessings,
Ginger
Wetumpka
CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE. I’m googling these ladies as soon as I hit comment! This sounds heavenly!!!
Thank you for sharing your week with us..it is always an honor to pray for you!
Hugs and love!
stephanie
Thank you Beth for serving and sharing. I’m so moved that you represented us on such an important day. God Bless you dear sister. You are using that remarkable God given gift of intelligence, personality and speaking ability(unlike any I’ve witnessed and I have listened to hundreds of speakers in my life). If you can add a video on the blog so we can actually hear what you shared in DC and PA, that would be wonderful. The Holy Spirit is up to something mighty right now- I can just tell by what you shared. Lots of Love
Here I sit propped up in my own bed as comfy as can be… with two Labs sprawled across and up against me as tight as they can get. My sweet man has our two kiddos downstairs preparing their gifts for tomorrow. And, your post just brought such joy to my heart. I had to picture having coffee in the cool new cups I picked up at Starbucks ~ mugs with no handles ~ along with the Pound Cake. I hope you had a restful day being home again after such a full time away. You are such a profound mentor to so many of us…. we all wish you, our Momma Beth, a HAPPY MOTHER’S Day!!! Now go grab yourself some more cake. 🙂
If you really want to taste a little piece of heaven slice that pound cake, put two or three pats of butter on it and broil it until it gets lightly brown. Yummy
Thanks for the update on how very wonderful the NDP was.
Our little town of 3000 is hosting the Simulcast at First Babtist of Hamburg Ar and I am so excited I am about to bust
Can’t wait
Inez
Thanks Beth! Through our prayers we have all felt that we were with you in DC – and your vivid descriptions makes it more perfect!
You are a gem AND our favorite Bible Lady!
Much love to you and your whole beautiful family,
Sister Lynn
I LOVE that you were in your gown when you wrote this – and enjoying pound cake too, no less. 😀 Just made my mother-in-law a sour cream cheesecake, cuz she is coming HERE for the afternoon, and I get to keep the left overs. JK. I’d make it for her anyway.
I am so very glad that you and Keith were blessed on this trip. You were on my heart the whole time, and beig prayed for. Of course, I would have given my right arm to be with you at Mt. Vernon, but that’s another matter!
Btw, do the Two Belles have a web site?
Just about every time I read the posts on this blog I cry. I’m either laughing so hard I cry or I’m so moved by it all I cry. Y’all ought of put a warning on your blog: “Read with kleenex in close proximity.”
Thank you so much for sharing. Last week I just watched a lesson in The Beloved Disciple study where you talked about all of us being your girlfriends. Reading this blog is kind of like that weekday call from your BFF ;)talking about our weekend and plans for the week. Then the bible study time is the hard core pointing each other toward Christ time.
Thanks chickadee. (That is what I call all my friends!)
Thank you Beth for representing all God's children well at NDP events. I got goose bumps as I read your description of the events. I love experiencing your life through this blog!
I am proud of you and for you, especially as a momma. I so wish someone had shared the "no amount of success in ministry can make up for failure at home" with us! I sometimes feel like we sacrificed our children to the ministry. In my heart I know that is a big fat lie of the enemy but it is so hard to watch my twenty something young men wonder so far from their heavenly father as well as their legacy of faith! I know that they both are saved and will return to a place of serving God again I just don't know when. Why is the wait so hard???
Please know that you are my "Bible lady" along with the tens of thousands of others around the world. As a preacher's kid and music pastor's wife I have always loved church and serving God. But the day I first saw you in Tupelo MS (2002?)changed the course of my spiritual life forever. You made the WORD come alive and it spoke directly to me in a way this preacher's kid had never experienced! Beth, today our journey continues. Many years & countless bibles studies later many lives have been changed, especially mine! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being real, authentic and wildly in love with Jesus. It is contagious!
Praying for you and your sweet family. See you at Deeper Still in Greensboro!
Pam Carrigan
Greensboro NC
PS…No Pound Cake here 🙁 think I'll make a ice cream sundae 😉
Loving you, Siesta Mama, and honored Bible Lady. Thanks for sharing with us. So good to hear from you. God is so good. We are so blessed.
Mandy
in GA
Oh how I love pound cake. How I love our country. How I love you and but most of all how I love our Jesus! Thank you for sharing your week with us. I loved reading every letter. I got all those feelings you talked of just reading your post. Thank you Beth for keeping pace with Jesus, it makes me do the same and I love that! You will never know on this side of heaven exactly how you inspire and encourage all of us girls! Your daughters are precious and I pray for daughter-in-laws just like them! At one point I thought that it would be a real possibility for the real ones but I’ll take ones with similar hearts for our Jesus if I must! 🙂
Love you Beth girl!
Theresa
P.S. If you could pray for my friend Pamela. She lost her only child, a son, 21 years old last August and this is her first Mother’s Day without him. She would so appreciate a bunch of siestas praying for her and her family. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing highlights from your week. I can just imagine how scrumptous those pound cakes must be. I’d like them both I’m sure. But I can just imagine CHOCOLATE…I could certainly lay into some of that chocolate pound cake right now. Yum, yum, yum! You see, we’re in the midst of moving. And – well – it’s one of our harder moves as I’m having to leave some family behind. So emotions are building and chocolate pound cake certainly could help. But I guess since the cake is there and I am here, well, I guess you’ll have to eat my piece for me. I’ll settle for my Dove milk chocolate. Not to shabby of a substitute!
Take care and I hope you have a restful weekend!
Karen
You Moore girls have ravaged my heart this week! I have never cried more over the realization that so few of us have had regarding the situations of the poor across the vast world of ours. We knew it existed, but I truly had no idea. Melissa made that so real to me and I’m in prayer over becoming a sponsor through compassion. And now you! I’m a very patriotic gal and just imagining what you were describing took my breath away. I am spent! I cannot even imagine what you and your family are feeling. I love you so much! I was one of those that needed a huge wake up call to quit riding the fence and move toward Jesus and I got it a few years ago when I got a fatal diagnosis. I joined a bible study group shortly afterward and my first study was one of yours. I’ve never been the same. Oh to have a heart to love Him like you. May God bless you. Have a wonderful Mother’s Day.
What a wonderful post! You described your experience so well…that I cried. Thank you for serving God in everything you do.
Your sister in Christ ( and distant cousin! ) Diane
Beth, we do love you and your girls and your man!
I am so proud of you and so thankful for you and how you represent today’s Christian woman!
I have to tell you, I read a blog recently that disagreed with your Bible studies. I have to tell you, I wanted to ‘throw down’ with her! My best friend and I wanted to come right through the internet and do – well something – maybe pray for her!! hahaha!
We did the right thing though and agreed to disagree!
Hugs to you! I love you like crazy. 😉
GoD BE PRAISED! I so wanted to be able to go tucked away in your suitcase, but i think I would have set the airport alarms off with the metal in my neck. Well, it was a good thought! I’ve never been to our nation’s capitol but my husband and I have been talking about it for our wedding anniversary trip this fall. You made it all sound so intriguing, I can’t wait. I’m so glad you and Keith got to go together. Glad to have you back safe and sound—go rest and have a WONDERFUL MOTHER’S DAY!Carla lee
I just have to tell you that early Wednesday morning my daughter left the house for her 8th grade overnight trip to Washington D.C. – as she was headed out the door I told her that my Bible study teacher was also going to be in D.C. so she had to keep her eyes open for her, she assured me that she would! 🙂
We live just one hour east of Lancaster and Thursday my husband and I headed west to Lancaster. They have great shopping in the Lancaster area, everything you want at a better price and their cinnamon buns are to die for! This trip our mission was hitting the nurseries and the greenhouses. We had a wonderful day together buying 2 trees and lots of flowers to plant in the flowerbeds, but I could hardly stand being in Lancaster knowing that my Bible study teacher was going to be there!! I was on the NPD web site trying to find out where you were going to be and could not come up with the location 🙁
I am on week 9 of the Esther study and it has been a huge blessing. I would love to tell you over a cup of strong coffee all God has spoke to me through the study!! I have been in tears countless times–God used this study to confirm his call for my life for this season of ministry.
Thank you for faithfully ministering to us!
Bendiciones,
Marlene in Harleysville, PA
Oooo your closing line would be a great license plate “He is IT!” Thanks for the update and assurance there are Christians leading in our goverment! Siesta Mama, you are truly my Bible Lady too! Anything I share with my group of gals that is presented by the blog (i.e. scripture memorization, summer bible study) I always introduce with a declaration of love for “all things Beth Moore”. 🙂
Becky
Thanks for being the “bible lady” to many of us. My 12 year old daughter just assumes if I am in bible study it is with Beth Moore. She was appalled that we were actually using another bible study teacher. I quickly told her that “Beth” recommends we sometimes use other bible study teachers.
Thanks so much for sharing all of that with us. I’m so burdened for our country and what the government is doing. I’m blown away with what is going on. It encouraged me to hear of so many that love the Lord. I need to pray for them to be bold. You are a great friend!
Thank YOU, Beth, for being so real and for sharing your heart, life and family with us. What a privilege to pray for you and have you represent us as a sister in Christ!
Julie in Tomball