Galatians is a mini-Romans which turns the law on its head and explains grace. That is the key to understanding the gospels.

Galatians provides the key for understanding the Old Testament in Gal 3:24,25, that the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. In other words, the law was temporary and every one of its precepts and peculiarities are illustrations about the Messiah, the Messiah to come.

Galatians changed my life, from being a miserable self-righteous follower of rules to a lover of Christ. The gospel is not about me and what I have done or need to do, it is about Christ and what he has done for us all. All glory and honor are his.

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Short and sweet.

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Scroop Moth: A woman once asked me, “In which book of the Bible is the story of Spartica told?”

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You my dear friend have something to write about, its not a story, its REAL LIFE. That’s what makes it different, and that’s what I read reading your discription from the beginning.

I hope you pray about this, and ask GOD how HE might use this time until now, how this has affected you and those around you.

I don’t think you realize the talent you have been given, you are gifted as a writer.

My husband just read your post, and he agree’s you are gifted —– his comment after I said, “she’s gifted?” —– answer, “very much so” -

God bless you

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I remember thinking, “What a horrible accident,” when I heard about the first tower. And then came the second tower and I immediately thought, “This was no accident.”

By the time the Pentagon was hit, we were about ready to start, and those whose husbands were in the Pentagon tried calling on cell phones. They couldn’t get through. One woman’s husband is a VA State policeman and she had to leave, because although he was off and taking care of their kids, he was called in to work. Some of the Pentagon wives left and went home too.

The rest of us decided to stay and pray and begin the study – it was the introductory lesson. So we left when we were through. We prayed afterwards as well I have to say, 9/11 was the lense through which we did that study. It gave us all a lot of food for thought.

My husband was at work at Ft. Belvoir. I tried calling him and couldn’t get through. All of the phone circuits were busy (cell and landlines too). I took a less congested roundabout way home because traffic on the major arteries was a nightmare. I also stopped by the nearest grocery store to pick up some supplies on the way home because I figured we’d be in crisis mode for a few days.

My husband made it through traffic and got home before I did, and since he couldn’t call me, he was pretty upset with me that I didn’t come straight home and he didn’t know where I was. (I thought staying and praying was a pretty good plan.) He was worried.

Our son was in high school locked down. He didn’t get home until very late in the day. Our daughter was in college , about 2 hours away. We could not manke calls in or out of the metro DC area. It was about 2PM before my aunt and uncle got thorugh and I passed information through them to the rest of the family. One of the family members was able to get through to her. It was the next day before we could call out.

We pretty much holed up at home for a couple of days, glued to the TV.

One of our neighbors who was a colleague of my husband’s came over and the two of them just cried together. These are a couple of cold, steely eyed retired SF guys. That was quite moving.

After the stories started coming out, I can’t tell you how many “I wasn’t there because…” stories came from friends, colleagues and brothers and sisters in Christ who should have been there but weren’t. I saw so much of God’s grace. Things could have been so much worse than they were.

I cried the first time I saw the Pentagon afterwards.

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All kidding aside, Exodus in the O.T. and Ephesians in the new. Although I have found that when I do an in-depth study in any book it immediately becomes my favorite for the period I am studying it.

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But in terms of enjoying a whole book for how it’s written as well as what it says, Job and Ecclesiastes top the list for me.

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