BSG Week!!!

Howdy!  Welcome to BSG week on the Bible Study Girl blog!!!!!!  It’s been a minute since I explained what a BSG is, so let me refresh your memory.  Way back in 2011, I sent out a mass email/text message and invited all the women that I knew in Central Arkansas to join in on a Bible Study.  Of the people that were invited, we ended up with a core group of six women that met weekly to discuss the things that we learned during the Bible study that week.

Every great group needs a name.  I don’t remember who came up with the name, but Bible Study Girls was chosen as the winning moniker.  Since we come from a culture that believes in nicknames, our natural tendency was to shorten the name.  We called ourselves the BSG’s.  Now that we’re all on the same page, let the festivities begin!!!

The idea of having a BSG week on the Bible Study Girl blog had been floating around in my head for a while.  I was wanting a drawing, and my BSG, Celisha, came to mind.  I sent her a text to commission her work, and she called me.  We started talking about life, and I realized just how much I missed her.

See, we stopped meeting for Bible study in around 2014.  When we first started Bible study, we had one newlywed, who was expecting a baby, and five single ladies.  We also had one BSG kid who came as a package deal with his mom.  As we continued to do life together, our BSG family expanded.  We married off three of the single ladies and welcomed two bouncing Bible study babies.  Life was great!!!  And it got very full.

So, our weekly Bible study sessions were a thing of the past.  Even though we didn’t meet weekly anymore, we saw each other on special occasions.  Birthday parties…Christmas.  We squeezed it in.  We even had a reunion trip to Gulf Shores in October of 2018.  We stayed up late, laughed, and talked about how much our lives had changed.

The phone call with Celisha brought back a flood of memories.  I sent out a text to the troops.  It was time to circle our wagons and see each other again.  We met for dinner.  We ate, we laughed, and then we talked about how much our lives had changed.  Tomica (Bible Study Cousin) brought up a possible BSG week on the Bible Study Girl blog, and, to my surprise, everyone quickly agreed. (With the exception of my bestie.  I wasn’t even going to ask her because I already knew the answer….LOL…I tried to tell them, but they didn’t believe me.)

That brings us to this momentous week.  The first EVER BSG week!!!  This week you will hear from Celisha, Toyia, Tomica, and myself.  We have all written about one moment that changed our lives.  The moments are different for all of us and cover a wide spectrum of topics.  I believe they will bless you, because they have certainly blessed me.

I don’t know that I could ever articulate just how special the BSG’s are to me.  They carved out a place in my life that is one of a kind.  It can’t be replicated.  We saw God move and answer prayers.  We lifted Him high while kneeling at His feet.  We were changed in ways that made us world changers.

Tomorrow we’ll have the sermon recap as usual, and then you get to hear from my sisters in Christ.  Oh, how I love them, and I’m sure you will too!  #wepreach