Meekness 4/12/11

This evening our lesson topic was meekness. Meekness is like gentleness and requires humility and self control.

Consider a horse - it has large muscles and is capable of running wild and being very powerful. However, it allows itself to be submitted to the will of its master and becomes gentle. Even though it seems subdued, it is still just as powerful as before. The difference is that the power is now controlled by a master.

In the same way, we are very powerful and are capable of many strong emotions. However, when we allow our wills and emotional power to be submitted to the Lord's control we become gentle. We haven't lost the power, we simply are allowing God to use that power the way He wishes.

Anger is the opposite of meekness and we will either yield to one or the other, but we can't have both. Many feelings of anger are often caused by "rights" that we feel have been violated. If we are willing to surrender those areas to the Lord, it will become easier for us to respond with meekness when we are tempted to retaliate in anger.

After the lesson, the girls got by themselves & did an activity of surrendering their rights to the Lord and asking Him to give them grace to respond with meekness the next time they are tempted to lash out in anger.

Abby

Martha

Karen

Cecily

Taylor, Heather & Brooke

Our group has been enjoying being pen pals with girls from a Bright Lights group in Texas. Each meeting they are eager to write letters and see if they have any mail. :)

The girls broke up into small groups and then we had tea and fellowship time to close. Bunny ears/moose ears were quite a popular picture theme this evening. :)

Gretchen & Jenna

Back Row: Taylor, Haleigh, Karen, Melissa 

Front: Amber, Sophie, Cecily, Gretchen, Heather

Cecily & Sophie

Sweet Sisters, McKenzie & BrookeAshley

Katie

Sara, Taylor, Sarah, Haleigh, Kalei & Sylvia (behind Haleigh)

Smiling Sarah

 "Ninja" is a very popular game of choice at the end of each meeting.

Jenna :)

Melissa :)

Amber & Abby

Karen, Jenna & Gretchen

Jenna, Shelby & Martha

I look forward to seeing you all again on April 26th!