Guest Blog: Speaking of Girl Talk and laughing together...

For those of you who have not been a part of the Girl Talk connect group, I want to encourage you to jump in and make it a priority the next season connect groups are going.

For Laura's group, I would hide in the back bedroom with Ali (our Golden Retriever) while the ladies had fun in the front of the house. From where I was, you couldn't hear the goings-on, but I sure could hear the laughter. And there was a TON of it. Sometimes they would all get to laughing so much it made me laugh just hearing them! I was rejoicing in my spirit knowing that the memories and friendships that were starting, growing, and strengthening were all to God's glory.

When we 'do life' together, friendships are developed and those are the bonds that hold us up when we go through the valleys that Christ spoke of, which are sure to come at some point. We all have the potential to take ourselves and this life too seriously at times, and getting together with friends is a great way to keep everything in perspective and stay grounded. If we are not celebrating and loving this life that Christ died so that we could prosper in, what else is there. How are we a testimony to God's love and blessings if we are beat down and overcome by the world?

Tonight was the wrap up party for Girl Talk, and I can say that from the laughter and fun that I could hear from the other end of the house - those ladies really know how to laugh together! I am sure that every lady present over the last few weeks has had to make sacrifices to be here, but as Jen said in Girl Talk “I don’t want to breathe my last breath filled with regret. I don’t want to say, “I wish I had …”