Taking Responsibility for the Choices We Make–Lesson 1

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1. I could not get the first lesson of Taking Responsibility For The Choices we make to work… any ideas????

   1. do you mean the videos wouldn’t play?

   2. Did you get it working?

2. Hi my friends! I hope you enjoy this study, let us know what’s going on in your lives as you are participating. My son TJ is now living in NYC (right in the heart of Manhattan) and still digging deep for truth, and purpose and God. He’s on his way to making his first million in online digital marketing. I’m going to post a picture of us for you to see him on my facebook page, you can see it here: https://www.facebook.com/LeighannMcCoyPrayAllTheWay/?ref=bookmarks

   What thoughts do you have as we begin?
   What motivated you to take this study?
   What do you hope to get out of it?

   Ready? GO!!!

   1. I was motivated bc I’m craving fellowship and mentoring from other pastor wives as I’ve entered into a new season within the past year.

      1. You are in a great place to begin to make those connections.

3. I was motivated to start this study because my group study is ending next week and I am too busy this season to lead another right away. This is perfect for me, I can check in when I have time and go at my own pace! Love the videos! I can paint while I listen ❤️ Perfect! Have you considered doing any audio books? 😂

   1. YAY, Amanda! Show us some of your work if you can. 🙂 Welcome, and I’m glad to have you with us. BTW, audio books are a great idea!

4. I was motivated bc I’m craving fellowship and mentoring from other pastor wives as I’ve entered into a new season within the past year.

   1. Congratulations on your new season, I hope is SPRING (and not an endless winter!)

5. I am excited to join this online bible study.
   I really do not have any thoughts right as we begin. I am just eager to get started.
   What motivated you to take this study? I want to fellowship with other fellow Christians. I do not get an opportuntity to participate in mid-week bible study because of schedule conflicts with cheer and other activities that my children participate in. This group is my accountable partner as I seek to grow my wiser and closer to God.
   What do you hope to get out of it? I hope to develop a deeper and more intimate relationship with God. To trust Him whole heartly, even during moments of challenges.

   1. AMEN sister! I hope you get ALL that! 🙂

6. Hello ya’ll! I am looking forward to the online fellowship and community with other minister wives as we study this book together. I learned about this study at the recent Empowerment Minister Wives Retreat and knew I had to sign up. I have not done an online study nor a study with other minister wives. Taking responsibility for our choices is very important, but may not be easy. Learning how to do so when we have been wounded is challenging. I am excited to read and learn from Leighann and what the Lord spoke to her in writing this book. I am praying for you all and our time together!

   1. Shasta, you are so right. I’m doing the study to start practicing what I wrote! This next week’s video where I begin talking about taking down our altars of disappointment is such a great idea–and a powerful thing when we take time to do it. So much can change when I change my mind, and choose to look at what is good, and what is God in all things. Maybe this is what God meant when He said, “rejoice always, again I say, REJOICE!”

7. I just need something outside of our Bible Study, Sunday School, etc. I wanted something to focus on when I get to work first thing in the morning early when no one is bursting into my office. I am also at a crucial point in my life where I have to make some decisions just for me and not everyone else. I am also very tired from being busy all the time. This will be a break for me.

   1. So glad, I hope you get to laugh a little. I’ll try to be especially funny just for you. lol…seriously, it’s a good time to take a drink from His cup before you start pouring out throughout your day.

8. Greetings. In the last few weeks, my oldest daughter (19yrs old) has faced some disappointments with a guy friend who went away to boot camp for 8 weeks. When he came back home for the holidays, he treated her horrible and said the military brainwashed him into never trusting females because he could get in trouble for sexual harassment. So, he treated her like the enemy. She internalized his negative actions and decided not to join the military because of him. I had to respect her decision even though I feel shes making a mistake. Next, I have been dealing with health issues and life road blocks that elevate my blood pressure from stress. I am trying to learn to juggle being a pastors wife, raise my children, work full-time, volunteer out in the community, not die before my time and be what God has called me to be. I want to realize I am not alone and that other pastors wives can relate to all I am going through. I am looking for strength and peace knowing I am on the right track to becoming what God has called me to be/do.

   1. 1joulib1, thank you for your honesty. What a hard thing to deal with. As you know, I was dealing with my daughter, Kaleigh being heart broken when I wrote the book. Ironically, she’s going through an even worse ordeal now. I’ll not spill all her guts on here, but just know that I’m in the same boat you’re in as we row our way through this study.
      Take some deep breaths throughout your day, and ask God to show you how you can honor Him with some Sabbath. I’m getting more and more convicted about that!

9. I am enjoying your book, Leighann, and your “down home” video. I can identify with some of your bends in the road. My husband and I have been in ministry for 40 years. I have experienced the wounded warrior complex and know how difficult it is not to allow hurtful people to rob you of your joy. I am looking forward to this study with other pastors’ wives for a renewal of a new vision and purpose and for the motivation and encouragement that we will be able to share with each other. May God continue to bless you beyond measure as we continue this study.

   1. There you are!! Thanks for giving me your code name. 😉
      I want to share something that might help you–or someone else–I know it helped me!
      Earlier this week I had a church member send me and my husband “one of those” emails–where she’s disappointed in how the church hasn’t been there for her, and is leaving immediately (can we please refund the deposit she paid for her son’s beach week) and she’s so hopeful that God will fix us before many others are wounded…you know what I’m talking about.
      As I was mourning the personal loss I felt because I considered her my friend, our very young, very cool student pastor (I’m his direct report as the family minister), just said, “She’s not your friend.”
      And you know what, he was right. I was grieving something that WAS NOT. She might have been my friend 8 years ago, but she was not my friend anymore. She’d been talking negative about me, and didn’t support our ministry.
      God used his comment to free me from this one and from another friendship I’d been grieving for 3 years—it’s the friend I mention in the introduction of the book. Suddenly I realized that I could move forward because those women who hurt me with their assessment of my shortcomings were NOT my friends!
      It’s so much easier to part ways with people who are not your friends than it is to part ways with people who are! I don’t know if this helps you at all, but it sure helped me!

10. I decided to join this study because I haven’t been able to join a women’s study for awhile and want the challenge and fellowship of it. Also, there are people who come and want us to fix the choices they had made or I see them trying to fix their children’s choices — looking for insight to share with them. Love your video, thank you for making me feel at home.

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